Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 09:48:06 -0400
From: dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: buyukisik_o_f AT ae DOT ge DOT com
Cc: leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: exec on dos


> Someone ported groff to djgpp 1.10. He had spawn,vfork, and popen...
> which worked for 1.10 and probably won't work for 1.11. Changes were
> made to the go32 itself. It had a simple 20 task capability. I think
> something along these lines would prove very helpful with the new
> go32. 

spawn and popen exist in 1.11.  vfork doesn't exist in standard 1.11
libraries (well it does, but it always fails).