FA> From what i've read in another echo, -1 as a return
FA> code is not even legal in dos ?

dn> Hmm, that depends. Is that -1 a char or an int wide?

That's a strange question to ask?!  In what respect are you referring?
-1, char and int are both represented on intel machines as binary
'1111...', so what's the diff?  BFN.  Paul.
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