Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!hwcs!neil From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Pexec Message-ID: <1710@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> Date: 23 Feb 88 10:04:28 GMT Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland Lines: 165 Keywords: Summary First of all thanks to all those people who responded to my Pexec plea. Here is a uuencoded archived summary of Allan Pratts answers from way back covering:- What the system does when it gets a Pexec What Pexec(4, is about and why it disna work Executing processes at the end of the TPA Since the Pexec cookbook posted here is only a preliminary version I would welcome a more complete version from Allan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I think all right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. 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