"Numerical Recipes in C" is nonport[truncated]
Rahul Dhesi
dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP
Sat Sep 10 14:24:38 AEST 1988
In article <225800065 at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>It is even possible
>to design an operating system so that...
>there is some magic cookie necessary to make
>an executable file, and no compiler or assembler allows setting such
>cookie *. VMS makes it rather difficult to set such a thing (but
>possible).
>From VMS, using C, it is trivial to create an executable file. Just
open the file with fopen(), write to it with fwrite(), and close it
with fclose(). If the data bytes make sense, VMS will be happy to
execute it.
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