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From: mo@messy.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell)
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Subject: Re: fork, spawn, vfork: an overview -- is this confused??
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Date: 6 Aug 90 18:30:48 GMT
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Well folks, the Software Tools people have used a spawn()
primitive now since, oh, 1979 or so and the Software Tools
environment runs on over 50 different host operating systems,
most of which can run the Software Tools shell.

So, while it might not be pretty, it sure ain't impossible.

	-Mike