From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: exit() makes my program crash!!!! (FINAL comment)
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:02:10 GMT
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Mohamed Saad <bazramit AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>
> i have discovered that the program does NOT freeze!
> the program has actually finished! but screen did not
> return to text mode!! i became sure of this, as, after
> the program freezed, i just typed 'exit' and i simply
> returned back to windows!
> This simply means that exit() does NOT always return
> back to text mode by itself! i HAVE to put the
> following line:
> screen.settext();
> before ANY call to exit!!

Or just put this in your atexit() handler. exit() always calls
all installed atexit() handlers. Check the libc docs for
more info.

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