I agree this is a useful thing - closing the REPL before a user can read the error is frustrating. However, the batch files have been removed in the current trunk because they are no longer needed.
I have added a note about this to the following issue: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4812 On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Laszlo Hars <laszloh...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I run Julia programs (*.jl files) via the supplied julia.bat, any > error message pops up in a command window, which gets immediately closed, > so there is no chance I can read it. An extra line in the batch file solves > the program: if errorlevel 1 pause > > That is, the julia.bat could look like this (no need for the cleanup > lines, they are performed implicitly in the end of the batch): > > pushd %cd% > setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion > > call "%~dp0prepare-julia-env.bat" %* > call "%JULIA_HOME%julia-readline.exe" %* > > if errorlevel 1 pause >
