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to: BOB STOUT
from: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD
date: 1998-02-27 19:16:00
subject: calling dos commands
 >> What's the difference between exec and spawn?  They both seem to do the
 >> same thing.
 BS> exec() is part of the Posix.1 standard, spawn() is DOS/Win-only.  
Also available on OS/2 C++ compilers, and, I am told, VMS.
 ¯ JdeBP ®
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