In article <3174 at umcp-cs.UUCP> chris at umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: >> This isn't portable to VMS. >I would hope that on VMS, exit(0) maps to status code 1... No such luck. Here is what we use in exit(): __UNIX__ __VMS__ Success 0 1 Failure 1 0x10000002 Ugly but true under VMS with VAX-11 C. Bjorn Benson Software Engineer FutureNet - a Data I/O company