[Info-vax] Looking into C-include files on VMS

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In article <4ae8ddfb$0$276$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <4ae79c4e$0$282$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>> JF Mezei wrote:
>>>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>>>> We have managed to get along without fork() for about thirty
>>>>>> years.
>>>> I've programmed for for VMS VAX and Alpha for about thirty-five years 
>>>> without missing fork() in the slightest.  YMMV
>>>>
>>>> Of course I started my career ca. 1966 with SDS 900 series machines 
>>>> which ran a long forgotten O/S and used a long forgotten command 
>>>> language. Unix was still imprisoned at Bell Laboratories and Berkeley. 
>>>>  From that I moved to IBM mainframe.  None of these systems offered or 
>>>> needed fork() or vfork().
>>> AFAIK there are no programming task that requires fork.
>>>
>>> But porting code using fork to a system with no fork is
>>> often a lot of work.
>> 
>> But porting code using ASTs to a system with no ASTs is
>> often a lot of work.
>
>Yes. But that does not seem to be problem in this case.

You've completely missed the point.

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