On 02/24/2013 10:37 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > Decided to look up the VAX/VMS scheme... > > """ > If you know the condition code for a message, you can use F$MESSAGE to > translate the code to its associated message. For example: > $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE(%X00000001) > %SYSTEM-S-NORMAL, normal successful completion > """ > > VMS used a status of "1" for normal success (which implies that all > the odd integers were success/info messages, even integers would be > warning/error/fatal. > > http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/documentation/pdf/ovms_msg_ref_al.pdf
It's interesting to note that Windows NT sort of descends from VMS. I guess the end result was an unholy blend of VMS and CP/M. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
