[comp.os.vms] VAX C and SYS$OUTPUT

hagerty@csc32.DEC.COM (Veni, Vedi, Crashi) (09/13/87)

> As you may have gathered from the above, the way to avoid this unfortunate
> (in a few cases; one that comes immediately to mind is a print symbiont)
> state of affairs, just don't have a "main" routine.  Bear in mind that this
> also means you've got to parse the command line yourself.

   Not using a main() function in your C program also means that things like
   getenv and ^C trapping from signal() no longer work.  There are several
   other functions in C that will not work without a main because of the
   initialization that is done there.

							Dave()