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echo: aust_c_here
to: Paul Edwards
from: Roy McNeill
date: 1995-08-09 22:41:08
subject: problem in c++

PE> Why are you returning 1 to the environment?  0 or EXIT_SUCCESS

 PE> signal success.  EXIT_FAILURE indicates failure, and anything

 PE> else is machine-dependant (which you need sometimes, but surely

 PE> not here?).  BFN.  Paul.



 RM> Tired, I guess. I was thinking in boolean terms - zero is

 RM> false, anything else is true



I forgot to add: I only wrote int main{} instead of void main{} to

keep *you* off my back. Can't I do anything right?



Cheers



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