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From: dave@terminus.UUCP (VAX Headroom @ The End of the Galaxy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: VMS and exit();
Summary: exit in VAXC
Message-ID: <37@terminus.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 88 02:54:17 GMT
References: <11537@brl-adm.ARPA>
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In article <11537@brl-adm.ARPA>, lamonts@Sds.Sdsc.EDU (Steve Lamont) writes:
> > <     exit( 0 );
> > < %NONAME-W-NOMSG, Message number 00000000
> >...
> and just drop out the bottom, you don't get a message.  I don't know if that
> was the case under 2.2 or not, since I don't have access to the old version

Yes, that is the case under 2.0-2.3.

VMS likes exit() or exit(1) as an "ok" indication.

I propose the use of exit(EXIT_OK) where EXIT_OK is defined correctly for
your machine.