Re: metapost not invoked? mpgraph.1 not created

[Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coe.uga.edu>]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> At 03:16 PM 2/20/01 +0100, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >if I change the texexec perl script and add a exit 0 after line 
> >1767: 
> >
> >[...]
> >#D   [       file=texexec.pl,
> >#D        version=2000.03.25,
> >[...]
> >              { print "                format : $MpFormat\n" ;
> >                $cmd .= " $MpPassString $MpFormatFlag$MpFormat " }
> >            $Problems = system ("$cmd $MpName" ) ;
> >	exit 0;  # <-----------------------
> >open (MPL,"$MpName.log") ;
> 
> I'm clueless too. Does anyone know what this means what this results in?
> Some quit? Is this perl dependent? 

exit just terminates the perl program after running any "END" block.
The exit status of the program is the value of the expression
following "exit".  

So Patrick Gundlach has just told the perl program to terminate
immediately with an exit status of zero (success).

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