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Article #30809

Pexec

#30809
From: Neil Forsyth
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1988 10:04
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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.

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"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. I'm certainly not and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!"
- Monty Python

 Neil Forsyth                           JANET:  neil@uk.ac.hw.cs
 Dept. of Computer Science              ARPA:   neil@cs.hw.ac.uk
 Heriot-Watt University                 UUCP:   ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!neil
 Edinburgh
 Scotland
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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
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Keywords: Summary