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From: beth@cayman.COM (Beth Miaoulis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: rcs exit status
Keywords: rcs
Message-ID: <3693@cayman.COM>
Date: 28 Jul 89 19:47:27 GMT
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Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge Ma
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Hello,

I am writing some csh scripts which use the rcs system to control our 
software development and I ran into something which reflects either a 
misunderstanding on my part or a bug in rcs.c (rev 4).

I was expecting the rcs command to have a non-zero exit status if it
failed because the last RCS file specified does not exist.  In rcs.c
it seems that a 0 return from pairfilenames, will allow the for-each-file do 
loop to continue, yet will mask any error returned.

Is this how things are supposed to work?  If so, any suggestions for
how I can detect if rcs fails without reading stdout?

Thank you,
	Beth Miaoulis


P.S. Where's the best place to send rcs questions?  Does
Walter Tichy still care?
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Beth Miaoulis (beth@cayman.com)
Cayman Systems, Inc.
(617)494-1999