From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Help: what they are for?
Date:	Wed, 07 Jan 1998 20:05:17 -0500
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Ivo Stoykov wrote:
> 
> I found two functions int libc which have only quoted (from info
> file) help. Unfortunately it is very unclear to me. Could
> somebody explain me more comprehensive what they are for? And what
> means 42 returned value?

geteuid() and getgid() are Unix functions that deal with users and
groups.  They are useless on MS-DOS.

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