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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 2000 06:43:38 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/lpr/lpd printjob.c
Message-ID:  <3A11B20A.8AE1A5CA@newsguy.com>
References:  <200011142132.NAA19274@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> 
> gad         2000/11/14 13:32:52 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     usr.sbin/lpr/lpd     printjob.c
>   Log:
>   Get rid of 'exit(-1)' calls.  Exit codes are limited to 8 bits under most
>   Unixes, so -1 becomes 0xFF for 2's complement and 0xFE (?) for 1's
>   complement.

That's true, but, afaik, C standard mandates 2's complement. Also, you
forgot 0x01 for sign-bit. :-)

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