Re: File handling
- Posted by mountains at MINDSPRING.COM Jun 07, 1998
- 655 views
At 06:44 AM 6/7/98 -0500, Terry Constant wrote: >Its been so long since I worked with Command.com, I can't remember if >there is a way to get exit code info on internal commands. If not there >would only be one atom. > There must be a way. Batch files can branch based on errorlevel. Also there is interrupt 4Dh that reads the errorlevel returned on a program exit (I think. Anybody want to wade thru the dos-ref and find out for sure?) >In any case, the return sequence would have information about success or >failure that could be analyzed. > Someone made a suggestion to Rob that system() be made a function, rather than a procedure, for exactly that purpose. I hope he sees fit to change it. Irv