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F-returns (failure-return)

An ECS action, or a subprocess, could return with an F-return, distinct from an error. In particular, the ECS system returned with F-return when an attempt was made to reference data in a non-existent portion of a file. This F-return was processed in either of two ways. The simplest was to reflect it to a program jump in the calling program.

Paul McJones
1998-06-22