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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Passing a Command to Unix in Ada
Date: 1999/02/09
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In article <79q8n7$u00$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dennison@telepath.com writes:

> A couple of folks have written to me to point out that "system", although not
> a proper statement like "break" and "for", is indeed required to exist for C
> implementations by the ANSI C standard. So I must apologize for causing any
> confusion there.

Does anybody know what this required call does on a Macintosh ?

Larry Kilgallen