In DOS the infamous Abort, Retry, (Ignore), Fail was the default handling of "critical errors". Abort would terminate immediately, and fail would return control

In DOS the infamous Abort, Retry, (Ignore), Fail was the default handling of "critical errors". Abort would terminate immediately, and fail would return control to the program with an error code. You could override this however: https://web.archive.org/web/20100206220048/http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AoA/DOS/ch19/CH19-2.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100206220048/http://webster.cs...