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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 09:04:33 -0600 (CST)
From: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
Subject: Re: `void main' in Gnu packages---?!
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Cc: alain AT qnx DOT com
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-: I'm certainly curious to know in which program/package, since most of the
-: GNU *utils are design to be use with Unix shells so the return
-: value of main is important when doing shell scripts.

One place I found it was in time.c of the GNU time-1.7.tar.gz archive.
This compiled right out of the box (well, almost), but when I ran the
executable I got a brutal reminder that DOS can't fork().  Duh. [:-/

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