Problem running code after compiling

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  1. Rocky48

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    Hi! I'm new to C programming and I can't understand what is happening.
    I have written some code to calculate the number of rolls of wallpaper to decorate a room.
    I have compiled it and at first it worked OK, using it in my C compiler program (LCC Wedit).
    Subsequently I tried running it by clicking on the executable and it does not run and returns code -1 instead of 0. Even if I return to the compiler program it comes up with the same return code.
    Why is this happening?
    Here is the code:
    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <conio.h>
    int main(void) {
    float ht, wall1, wall2, wall3, wall4, winht, winwidth, wallarea,Wpaperwid,Wpaperarea, NoLen, NoRolls;
    printf("Height of wall to be wallpapered = ? ");
    scanf("%f", &ht);
    printf("Width of Wall 1 = ? ");
    scanf("%f", &wall1);
    printf("Width of Wall 2 = ? ");
    scanf("%f", &wall2);
    printf("Width of Wall 3 = ? ");
    scanf("%f", &wall3);
    printf("Width of Wall 4 = ? ");
    scanf("%f", &wall4);
    printf("Width of Window = ? ");
    scanf("%f", &winwidth);
    printf("Height of Window = ? ");
    scanf("%f", &winht);
    wallarea = ((ht*wall1)+(ht*wall2)+(ht*wall3)+(ht*wall4)-(winht*winwidth));
    printf("Total area of Walls, less Window = ");
    printf("%f\n", wallarea);
    printf("Width of Wallpaper = ?");
    scanf("%f", &Wpaperwid);
    Wpaperarea =(ht*Wpaperwid);
    printf("Area of one length of Wallpaper = ");
    printf("%f\n", Wpaperarea);
    printf("Number of lengths of Wallpaper = ");
    NoLen=(wallarea/Wpaperarea);
    printf("%f\n", NoLen);
    NoRolls=(ht*NoLen/10);
    printf("Number of Rolls of Wallpaper= ");
    printf("%f\n", NoRolls);
    return(0);
    }
    
     
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    Woo!
    Whats going on?
    Found a way of running program called Execute on the Utils menu and it ran and and let me input the values, but When I got to the last input and pressed enter the console closed, so I could not se the result. I think it may have written the result to the screen, but closed immediately. How do you hold the console open until you hit a key, like it did in the compiler program?
     
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    Figured a work around!
    wrote a batch file and put a pause in after the exe had run.
     

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