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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, wollman@lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: remote make install
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>success/failure of its mailer programs.  We have significantly
>extended this usage to other programs not being invoked by sendmail,
>because it can use useful to determine what happened to a program by
>examining its exit status.

_You_ extended it :-).  I only want evry program to print a good error
message before exiting with a nonzero status.  Error codes aren't very
useful except for a small set of cooperating programs.

Bruce