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- From: yates@a.chem.upenn.edu (John H. Yates)
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- Subject: Re: Why CALL EXIT? (was Re: Question for C ==> Fortran)
- Keywords: why ask why
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- Date: 30 Jul 92 17:27:16 GMT
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- >On some older systems, exiting with a STOP printed some silly information
- >that was useful in a BATCH (eek) context, but was annoying in an
- >interactive mode. Using the non-standard exit made for a visually
- >clean exit.
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- exactly why I started using it years ago.
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- John
- yates@a.chem.upenn.edu
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