From: Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP Setup Utility in the making.
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:38:46 GMT
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On Wed, 09 Feb 2000 16:16:50 +0200, Laurynas Biveinis
<lauras AT softhome DOT net> wrote:

>Here comes one disadvantage that DJGPP has library 
>functions like fork(), pipe() etc. which always fail. 
>I moves meaningful error message from compilation
>to runtime.

You can move them to compile time by #define'ing them away in headers.
Any use of them will create compiler warnings and linker errors.

#define pipe NO_pipe
#define fork NO_fork

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