Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cs.yale.edu!tarr-michael From: tarr-michael@CS.Yale.EDU (michael tarr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Breaking out of a series of routines Message-ID: <25526@cs.yale.edu> Date: 9 Jul 90 15:27:54 GMT Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Reply-To: tarr-michael@CS.Yale.EDU (michael tarr) Organization: Department of Psychology, Yale University Lines: 7 On an error condition I wish to immediately stop processing a large file and break out of about 10 routines that have been calling each other and return to my main event loop. Is there any way to do this without passing and error flag to each of the calling routines? tarr@cs.yale.edu