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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
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Subject: Re: Can batch files return value to C program?
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Date: 18 Mar 90 12:30:50 GMT
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In article <26029AB4.25754@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) wrote:
}    Please note that a batch file can not return an errorlevel at all.
}Only .COM and .EXE programs return errorlevels, and to get their return
}codes they can not be executed using the system () call, since that
}invokes COMMAND.COM first and COMMAND.COM doesn't pass back the errorlevel
}of any program it spawns.

Yet another case in which 4DOS does things the way COMMAND *should* have done
them.  4DOS properly passes back the errorlevel of a program started with /C.
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