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From: hamilton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: More on setting DOS errorlevel
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Date: 18 Mar 88 10:41:00 GMT
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/* Written  9:57 am  Mar 16, 1988 by wew@naucse.UUCP in uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.ibm.pc */

If you read your DOS manual you would know that the IF ERRORLEVEL
statement tests for >= the errorlevel given.  You have to reverse
engineer your logic.  Dumb of IBM and Microsoft but that's the
way it goes.

Bill Wilson.
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    what's so dumb about it?  if you want to check individual values,
you can; just check for them in decreasing order.  imagine tho that
it had been implemented to test for exact match, and you wanted to
check for >=!

	wayne hamilton
	U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL
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