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From: bjorn@dataioDataio.UUCP (Bjorn Benson)
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Subject: Re: exit() on VMS
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Date: Sun, 16-Feb-86 18:26:57 EST
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In article <3174@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>>   This isn't portable to VMS.
>I would hope that on VMS, exit(0) maps to status code 1...

No such luck.  Here is what we use in exit():

	__UNIX__	__VMS__
Success	   0		   1
Failure	   1		0x10000002

Ugly but true under VMS with VAX-11 C.

			Bjorn Benson
			Software Engineer
			FutureNet - a Data I/O company