Twos-complement -1 is of course a possible interpretation, but not I think a very liklely one in this context.
Negative return codes, reason codes, and the like are not unknown; but they are very little used in any but very mature systems within which other options have been exhausted.. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
