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Re: fork in win95 osr2 (NBY)


>   Earnie Boyd (earnie_boyd@hotmail.com)
>       
>Have you downloaded and installed the "coolview" updates?  Check out
>Sergey Okhapkin's page.  Be sure to read all of the instructions.
>-        \\||//
>---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o----
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>
>>From: "William Lau"
>>Hi all,
>>    I've just installed b18 of the developer packaged and tried a
>simple =
>>fork program in win95 osr 2 and win nt 4.0 SP3.=20
>>the following is the code...
>>
>>#include
>>
>>void main()
>>{
>> fork();
>> printf("hello");
>>}
>>
>>It worked fine on nt, but went cukoo with 95. The following is what 95
>=

The one thing you _didn't_ say was whether you were running the program
inside of a bash shell.  I'm willing to bet that, if you do run the program
within a bash shell under b18, the error messages will go away.  The same
thing happens when you call mc.exe, the Midnight Commander program.

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