From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4169 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: metapost not invoked? mpgraph.1 not created Date: 20 Feb 2001 16:35:14 -0500 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <3.0.6.32.20010220174653.01a10710@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394858 23459 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:40:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Patrick Gundlach , ConTeXt Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: Hans Hagen's message of "Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:46:53 +0100" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4169 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4169 Hans Hagen 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). -- --Ed Cashin integrit file verification system ecashin@coe.uga.edu http://integrit.sourceforge.net/