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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

P. Sture wrote:
> 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
> ;-)
> 

If you think "in the VMS paradigm" you'll never miss it!  I've used Unix 
and even done a little programming under Unix but I never used fork() in 
my code.