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From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-16 12:59:36


"William E. Kempf" wrote:
[...]
> Recovery is hardly meaningless in this case. The recovery consisted of
> informing the user of his mistake,

I'd say "application's environmental problems" [or something like
that] that can't be handled/"recovered from" by the application...
but it actually MAY try to do something attempting "to recover"
FIRST].

> and probably asking him to try again.

After "fixing" the problem(s). And "batch processing" stuff will
probably end up in exit( EXIT_FAILURE ) [or its equivalent with
respect to "normal-termination-operation-failed"] at this point.

> That's certainly "recovery", and is hardly "meaningless".

Yep.

regards,
alexander.


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