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From: kris@kriski.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Does Everybody leave dos.library open?
Message-ID: <1278@kriski.toppoint.de>
Date: 16 Oct 90 09:02:26 GMT
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In article <14721@netcom.UUCP> mcmahan@netcom.UUCP (Dave Mc Mahan) writes:
>   I was just cruising through some software today, and noticed that many,many,
>   programs leave the dos.library open after exiting.  In fact, it seems to be
>   a majority in the (limited) sample of stuff I tested, mostly PD.

This is due to an error in the startup-code of Manx Aztec C Compiler, which
was present to at least version 3.6. This startup-code opened the
dos.library but did not close it automatically. I always added an appropiate
"CloseLibrary" to my programs.

Kristian

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