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From: jfrancis@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Jeff Francis,Home Number,,3540765)
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Subject: Re: Accessing a "c" program value from a csh script
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Date: 21 Sep 90 18:41:16 GMT
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From article <2629@uc.msc.umn.edu>, by wes@uh.msc.umn.edu (Wes Barris):
> I have a "c" program that returns an integer value.  How does one run this
> program from within a csh script and access the returned value?  I have
> tried various forms of the following lines with no luck.

The value returned from any program is "remembered" in $status.

-jpf

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Jeff Francis
THINK Class Library Evangelist and
CS Student, University of Iowa
jfrancis@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu
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