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Stephen Hansen <me@ixokai.io> writes:

> > * You can use named constants from ‘os’ for the purpose of specifying
> >   exit status numbers.
>
> Only on *nix.

Hmm, I didn't see that. It seems strange that even the constant for “no
error” exit status should be defined only for Unix :-/

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