Those MPE Classic systems just don't want to quit!:-)

Richard

Donna Garverick wrote:
>
> Tom Hula wrote:
>
> > Does the program read 'CALL INTRINSIC "QUIT" USING \25\' ?
> > It wouldn't work correctly if the word 'intrinsic' is left out...
>
> you know...it's soooo nice when you actually get an answer to a
> problem....
>
> yes (to answer tom's question) the program was doing an 'intrinsic
> "quit"' -- all quite normal.  but the rc actually came thru for me
> (thanks susan).  this is a known defect with the cm call to 'quit'.
> there's an sr for it (sr-5003342345) and hp has no plans to fix it.
> if you're doing a cm call to 'quit' you can get bizzarre behavior.
> providing that i'm understanding all of this correctly (haha) -- quit
> will report the last(?) message found on the error stack -- which may
> or may not have anything to do with what's actually causing the
> program to barf.  there are a couple of suggested workarounds.  1) do
> nothing, ignore the message 2) certain instrinsics will zero-out the
> error stack, so call one of these 'magic' instrinsics prior to
> calling quit (the suggestion was to call 'print' with an empty
> buffer/length an cctl of %320 (no cr, no lf))  3) write a switch (i
> guess) to call nm 'quit' (yeah, right -- this *is* classics-are-us
> longs :-).  i think i like the sounds of #1 :-)    - d
>
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