Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!l.cc.purdue.edu!cik From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: want to know Message-ID: <1507@l.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 17 Aug 89 15:02:09 GMT References: <8487@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <2980@solo9.cs.vu.nl> <182@sunquest.UUCP> <566@augean.OZ> Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department Lines: 9 In the previous operating systems I have used, the startup procedure was done by the loader. This is what is missing in UNIX; the loader does not have the capability to produce the startup program, so that must be explicitly put in. -- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907 Phone: (317)494-6054 hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet, UUCP)