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From: dvadura@watdaisy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Exit codes, help...
Message-ID: <8137@watdaisy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 21:24:02 EST
Article-I.D.: watdaisy.8137
Posted: Fri Feb 13 21:24:02 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Feb-87 02:38:26 EST
Reply-To: dvadura@watdaisy.UUCP (Dennis Vadura)
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Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Waterloo
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Hi,

I have a small problem and would appreciate it very much if someone has a
solution.  When using Microsoft C 4.0 the spawn... functions return nice
exit codes from the tasks that you spawn.  The problem lies when you run
command.com with /C option.  Is there some way to get command.com to return
a proper exit code based on the exit code of the command it executed.
This may not be easy since the command it executed can either be internal or
external, and I'm not sure that the internal commands generate exit codes.
On a similar vain is there a way to get the exit code as a result of executing
the system() call from C.

Any words of wisdom on this topic would be muchly appreciated.  I'm sorry if
this was talked about earlier, but I haven't seen the discussion before.
I will post a summary of whatever responses I do receive.

-thanks dennis

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Dennis Vadura, Computer Science Dept., University of Waterloo
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