From d05afb455673a5397ecfa41f7ea36c75d0629566 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:51:42 -0500
Subject: try this

---
 README.md | 13 +++++++++++++
 exit.go   |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 README.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..34d58f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+This is part of 'argv'.
+
+argv has goals for your application which are:
+
+* help give birth to your command
+* then help it die with grace in the end
+
+prep currently provides:
+
+* bash autocompletion
+* command history
+* timing on exit
+* watchdog on exit
diff --git a/exit.go b/exit.go
index 393ddec..aeab59c 100644
--- a/exit.go
+++ b/exit.go
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ func (pb *Auto) BadExit(msg string, err error) {
 
 	dur := time.Since(pb.Ctime.AsTime())
 	log.Infof("%s error: %s (%s)\n", pb.Argname, msg, cobol.FormatDuration(dur))
-	os.Exit(-1)
+	os.Exit(1)
 }
 
 // this code doesn't need to be this complicated. I put it here as reference code for myself so I could remember where it is.
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