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operating system To create a child process in a

multitasking operating system. E.g. Unix's fork

system call or one of the spawn() library routines provided

by most MS-DOS, Novell NetWare and OS/2 C compilers -

spawnl(), spawnle(), etc.

(1995-03-28)

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