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From: GD.SAR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Sandy Rockowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: '.cmd' return codes
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Date: 10 Apr 91 23:16:55 GMT
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In article <18503@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>,
tmeiners@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Tedd Meinersmann) writes:
>I would like to get a return code from a executable file (.cmd or .exe)
>when I execute the file from within my 'C' code.
> [text deleted]
>
>For OS/2 (MicroSoft C 6.0) 'cmd.exe' does not return an exit status of
>the '.cmd' or '.exe' file that it executed.  There is no 'exit' equivalent
>of '.cmd' programming to force a return code.
>
Tedd,

If you are using IBM OS/2, you can use .CMD files written in Rexx.
Rexx allows you to set the return code.

Sandy Rockowitz
gd.sar@forsythe.stanford.edu