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From: mead@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: TP55: How to force DOS exit code?
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Date: 9 May 90 03:46:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!mead    May  8 22:46:00 1990



I would like to author some batch extentions (never mind that some
packages of these exist already) in Turbo Pasdcal (V55).  One thing
I'd like to be able to do is prompt the user for a Y/N response to
some arbitrary question and to communicate this to the batch file.

I believe the way one does this is to force a MS-DOS exit code of
(say) 1 for yes and (say) 2 for no - then use a line like:
     if errorlevel=1 goto yesresp
so my question is:  How do you force a particular exit code?

Alternative schemes also welcome, email is prefered.  Thanks in
advance.

Also, should I succeed, would the package be of interest to (and
appropriate for) this group (I'd post the TP sources)?  'Course, I
could always email them to interested parties as well.

-alan mead