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From: ljz@fxgrp.fx.com (Lloyd Zusman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Setting DOS errorlevel in C  (How?)
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Date: 18 Mar 88 15:04:20 GMT
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In article <4831@sigi.Colorado.EDU> murillo@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo) writes:

   Does someone out there know how to set the DOS errorlevel number
   in C?  I want to write a batch file that can branch according to the
   value of this number:

	if errorlevel 1 echo Big...
	if errorlevel 2 echo Bigger...
	if errorlevel 3 echo Biggest.


In most (all?) MSDOS C compilers, the exit() function will set errorlevel:

	main()
	{
		...
		...
		exit(3);
	}

The above will set errorlevel to 3.  Using "exit(N)" will set errorlevel
to N.

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