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From: georgf@polari.UUCP (George Forsman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Setting ERRORLEVEL in DOS
Keywords: assembly errorlevel
Message-ID: <1462@polari.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 90 05:53:28 GMT
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Reply-To: georgf@.UUCP (George Forsman)
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In article <23706@usc.edu> wan@pollux.usc.edu (Qiang Wan) writes:
>This may be a naive question for all you PC experts. I am trying
>to set the ERRORLEVEL to zero in DOS, and couldn't find a way
>to accomplish it. I had to use a C program which exits with 0.
>Any suggestion is appreciated. Please reply by e-mail. Thanks.
>
>ching wan

You will have to do it with a program, like the one you've written.  The
simplest one possible follows:

   mov ax,4c00h
   int 21h

This can be entered in DEBUG and saved as a .COM file.  All it does is call
the MS-DOS terminate process function with a return code of 0 (the 00 part of
4c00).  This version of the program will save the overhead of the C startup
code (and is obviously a little bit smaller :)

George
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