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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Exit code 252
Message-ID: <4987@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 18 Mar 91 06:17:10 GMT
References: <2538@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <2538@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk>, suthan@cs.hw.ac.uk (Manickam Umasuthan) writes:
> Could someone explain to me what it means if a programs exits with
> exit code 252 ? 

It means whatever the author of the program wanted it to mean.
If it's a UNIX or MS-DOS program, the program probably did exit(-4),
so check the program documentation for -4 as well as 252.

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Seen from an MVS perspective, UNIX and MS-DOS are hard to tell apart.