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In article <1496 at l.cc.purdue.edu> cik at l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:

| No, the question is not a JOKE.  It is a stupidity in UNIX which causes the
| problem.  I have used other systems in which the main program could have
| any name whatever, and even in which the entry need not be to a main program,
| while a main program is present.  I have even used it.

  There is no main program in C. There is a procedure named main. In
FORTRAN the main program is diferent from a subroutine or function, in C
it just happens to have a special name.

  If you really want to have a program which enters somehere else write
a dummy main:
	main(argc, argv, env)
	int argc;
	char *argv, *env;
	{ exit(yourname(argc, argv, env)); }

  I totally fail to see what the advantage of using another name is, but
I'm sure someone finds it aestheticaly (sp?) pleasing.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen at crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me