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From: joecar@pyuxe.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Fork and Exec
Message-ID: <215@pyuxe.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 22:24:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  1 22:24:39 1987
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In article <6635@brl-adm.ARPA>, bagpiper@csvax.caltech.edu writes:
> 
>    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.

I understand the difference between fork and exec system calls, but
I'd like to expand the question and ask if anyone can help me understand
the mapping of fork-exec and/or fork-exec-wait sequences to other non-UNIX 
computing environments like MVS, VM, VMS, and as the other article 
asks, MS-DOS.
 
Joe Carfagno
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