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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Lattice's fork function
Keywords: fork, task, help!
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Date: 3 Oct 88 04:01:18 GMT
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In article <2386@ihlpm.ATT.COM> jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) writes:
> "time time" works fine as does "time microemacs" (from the 1.2 extras),
> however, "time dir" prints the contents of the directory and then gurus,
> "time cd" crashes before printing, and "time echo hello" won't even fork
> the process.
>					|	Mike Davis

The Lattice fork() function only works on C executables and *not* BCPL
ones. The ARP replacement commands may fail (haven't tried them) because
they don't use the C startup code but I am not sure. The standard AmigaDOS
commands will definitely fail. 


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