From: Bjorn Hansen <viking AT xyz DOT net>
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Subject: Re: 2 quick questions
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 22:08:05 -0800
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John M. Aldrich wrote:

> Bjorn Hansen wrote:
> >
> > 1]  what does the exit code tell you?
>   It is a standard convention to use the exit code to indicate if a
> program ran successfully.  Programs written according to this convention
> return a zero exit code if they ran correctly, and a non-zero exit code
> to indicate some form of failure.

My programs that are successful often return a different exit code.  When
they fail I think they usually return 255.  I don't put anything like
return(0); at the end.  should I do this?  Is there anything else an exit
code tells you besides if the program was successful.  It seems like it must
since it does not just return a 0 or a 1.

Bjorn Hansen