Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!brl-adm!adm!Primixsys!bagpiper@csvax.caltech.edu From: bagpiper@csvax.caltech.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Fork and Exec Message-ID: <6635@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 01:01:49 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.6635 Posted: Wed Apr 1 01:01:49 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Apr-87 06:53:16 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 12 I thought I knew the answer to the following question until I started reading some essays in a Bell Laboratories Tech Journal: What is the difference between fork and exec in a unix environment and furthermore how does that map into a MS-Dos environment?? Can someone give me a straight authoritative answer or at least point me toward a set of essays that would give me an answer. Mike Hunter UUCP: cit-vax!oxy!bagpiper