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

P. Sture paul.nospam at sture.ch
Sat Oct 31 10:00:04 EDT 2009


In article <7kpigjF3af5v3U3 at mid.individual.net>,
 Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:26:50 -0400, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > VMS did not have a fork command.  It's a "Unixism".  SPAWN will create a
> > subprocess.  See HELP SPAWN.  It's a whole different programming
> > paradigm.  We have managed to get along without fork() for about thirty
> > years.
> 
> But with some loss of functionality...  (ducks)

A fine example of British understatement
;-)

-- 
Paul Sture



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