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From: bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Bob Luneski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Manx 5.0 bug -- response from Manx
Message-ID: <8563@pogo.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 90 23:10:28 GMT
Reply-To: bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Bob Luneski)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.
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barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
>	I informed Mike Spille of Manx about the bug I mentioned in this
>group (getchar() at EOF causes the operating system to say "cannot load
>file").  Indeed, _main() is returning -1 to the operating system, causing
>this error.  The workaround is to explicit return(0) or exit(0) in your
>main().

>	Yecch.

It is never a good idea to assume something will be done for you. By 
explicitly specifying your exit condition the "work around" is just good 
programming practice. 

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  Bob Luneski                                                             
                                                                         
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