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From: linwood@cbnewsk.att.com (linwood.d.johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Help: VAX C problem
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.161854.27378@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 30 Mar 91 16:18:54 GMT
References: <11697.27f376d8@zeus.unomaha.edu>
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In article <11697.27f376d8@zeus.unomaha.edu> kkrueger@zeus.unomaha.edu (Kurt Krueger) writes:
>I wrote and compiled my program on my Amiga, and it runs fine;
>however, I can't get it to run on our VAX.  I know next to nothing about C
>programming on the VAX (the truth is, I know little about C, as well), and I
>would be happy if someone could point out my folly.  The program is as follows:
>
>extern int atoi();
>float size, time;
>int block, mins, secs;
> 
>main (argc, argv)
> 
>int argc;
>char *argv[];
> 
>{
>  int result, value();
>  printf ("%s", argv[1]);
>  block = value(argv[2]);
>  size = block / 2;
>  time = size / 0.2227;
>  mins = time / 60;
>  secs = time - (mins * 60);
>  printf ("\t\t%d\t%d\n", mins, secs);
>}
> 
>int value(number1)
>char *number1;
>{
>  int convblock = atoi(number1);
******
Wouldn't you want this function to return something since you are
using the return value.

I think something like: return( convblock);

will do the trick.

>}

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