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From: ok@quintus.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: VMS and exit(-1)
Summary: yes we do
Message-ID: <572@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 88 04:54:00 GMT
References: <11439@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
Lines: 9
Posted: Sat Jan 23 23:54:00 1988

In article <11439@brl-adm.ARPA>, lamonts@Sds.Sdsc.EDU (Steve Lamont) writes:
> ... as you can see, VMS complains, sorta.
> 
> Doesn't *anybody* on this newsgroup actually _check_things_out_ before
> they send?  Arrrrrgh!
Yes we do.  exit(0) *is* silent in VMS 4.5 CC 2.3.
I would still like to know which systems exit(0) and exit(1) don't
work in, and as this misunderstanding shows, it is important that
people quote version numbers in their reports.