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From: plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Does Everybody leave dos.library open?
Message-ID: <34971@cup.portal.com>
Date: 18 Oct 90 01:53:35 GMT
References: <14721@netcom.UUCP> <CEDMAN.90Oct13225759@lynx.ps.uci.edu>
  <14766@netcom.UUCP> <1278@kriski.toppoint.de>
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In a recent article kris@kriski.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp) writes:

}In article <14721@netcom.UUCP> mcmahan@netcom.UUCP (Dave Mc Mahan) writes:
}>   I was just cruising through some software today, and noticed that many,man
   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

I just looked at this in Manx 5.0d, and apparently dos.library is now
closed properly at exit time.

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