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From: hagerty@csc32.DEC.COM (Veni, Vedi, Crashi)
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Subject: VAX C and SYS$OUTPUT
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Date: Sat, 12-Sep-87 18:02:00 EDT
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> As you may have gathered from the above, the way to avoid this unfortunate
> (in a few cases; one that comes immediately to mind is a print symbiont)
> state of affairs, just don't have a "main" routine.  Bear in mind that this
> also means you've got to parse the command line yourself.

   Not using a main() function in your C program also means that things like
   getenv and ^C trapping from signal() no longer work.  There are several
   other functions in C that will not work without a main because of the
   initialization that is done there.

							Dave()