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From: tony@mwuk.UUCP (Tony Mountifield)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: Can't execute "J" - Error #000: 216
Message-ID: <463@mwuk.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 91 09:05:40 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.001249.5963@ncsu.edu> <1991Jun18.033225.12476@mmm.serc.3m.com> <1991Jun18.184533.1648@urz.unibas.ch>
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In article <1991Jun18.184533.1648@urz.unibas.ch> balmer@urz.unibas.ch writes:
> Someone proposed to write a program called "J" which would be executed in
> this case. The programm J will actually execute, the problem is  that the
> shell tries to execute the next bytes of the binary file. You then get an
> error message like "Error 216: can't execute verflow".

This wouldn't happen if the program called "J" returned a non-zero exit
status (e.g. 1). That would cause the shell to stop reading the "script".

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