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From: ask@cbnews.ATT.COM (Arthur S. Kamlet)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: want to know
Message-ID: <9020@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 15 Aug 89 22:16:38 GMT
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In article <1496@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:




>Those who remember the old Fortran will know that one normally had a PROGRAM
>card, which was of the form
>
>	PROGRAM NAME(.............)
>
>amd NAME was the name of the main entry point of the program.  If you look at
>the documentation of ld, it states that one can specify the original entry
>point.  This seems not to be implemented well in any version of UNIX with




Well, instead of bringing back the old PROGRAM card, we substitute

		main(){PROGRAM_NAME()}


hey, hey, hey, one line, that's all.  just like the old days :^)
-- 
Art Kamlet  a_s_kamlet@att.com  AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus