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From: weimer@ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: mv'ing files from a C program
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.134819.5311@ssd.kodak.com>
Date: 16 Nov 90 13:48:19 GMT
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In article <1990Nov15.183359.963@ssd.kodak.com> weimer@ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer) writes:
>In article <1990Nov15.132952.11932@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>>You don't have to use system(3), you can use fork/execl(2) (or one of it's 
>>family of functions)...
>
>That's just about exactly what system(3) does. (i.e. you gain nothing for
>all the added code)

As others have pointed out, my above statement about system(3) is wrong.
Sorry for wasting bandwidth.