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> >It violates ANSI when used in a hosted environment.
> 
> What's the difference between a freestanding and hosted environment?  From
> the wording, I think I have a general idea, but I'm not completely definate.

A hosted program must return a status code to the environment which is
hosting it.

A freestanding program never exits, and therefore is not required to
obey the status-code protocol.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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