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From: amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (alan mead)
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Subject: Re: halt() problem
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.214623.18899@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 21:46:23 GMT
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Mark@hamster.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell) writes:

>program test;
>begin
> halt(1);
>end.

>should it not give an errorlevel of 1?

>XYZ.BAT contains:
>test
>if errorlevel 1 ver

>It does not print out the dos version.  I beleive I have used this in the
>past, but I only have 6.0 loaded on my machine now.  Any ideas?  Does anyone
>with 5.x want to try it?

It worked when I changed the errorlevel to 2 (I introduced a bug and didn't
try 1).  I believe I've used 1 before successfully.
-alan mead : amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu