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From: bentrup@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: More on setting DOS errorlevel
Message-ID: <75800056@uiucdcsp>
Date: 15 Mar 88 19:38:00 GMT
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>/* Mar 14, 1988 by murillo@sigi.Colorado.EDU in uiucdcsp:comp.sys.ibm.pc */
>The following code shows that exit(errorlevel) works.  The problem is
>that if errorlevel is set with an exit(5) for example, all if tests for
>values <= to 5 are tested as true.  
>            exit(5);
>            FIVE!
>            FOUR!
> ...
>            ZERO!
>Why would (errorlevel 0) test true if the exit is exit(5)??!!
>if errorlevel 8 echo EIGHT!
> ...
>if errorlevel 1 echo ONE!
>if errorlevel 0 echo ZERO!
 
 From the manual "ERRORLEVEL number is true if the previous program had an
                  exit code of number or higher"
					 ^^^^^^
 I think you want to do something akin to
     if errorlevel 8 goto process_8
     if errorlevel 7 goto process_7
     ...
     :process_8
       <whatever error 8 does>
     goto exit
     :process_7
	<etc for 7>
     goto exit
     ...
     :exit

john

John Bentrup
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Computer Science

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