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From: arxt@sphinx.uchicago.edu (patrick  palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Help! batch file problems
Message-ID: <4349@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: 8 Jun 88 05:36:23 GMT
Reply-To: arxt@sphinx.uchicago.edu (patrick  palmer)
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I just ran into a stupid problem that I do not understand.  I was trying to
simplify the job of formating a whole pile of disks (to see if they are OK).
I tried to create a batch file (which might or might not be easier - but when
something is as boring as formating 50 disks, why not).  I made a file in the 
s: directory that looked like:

echo "begin"
format drive df0: name blank noicons
echo "finish"

Then from the system: directory, I typed:
execute filename

It appeared to work fine until the bitter end; then it failed with some 
message like:
returncode 20
(maybe it said format failed first).

Anyway, I do not have any documentation to tell me what this returncode means,
and I do not see anything wrong with what I did.  Would someone please 
enlighten me.  (I have a plain vanilla system on an A1000 and
a B2000 - both give the same result.)

Pat Palmer    arxt@sphinx.uchicago.edu  (Bitnet or arpanet)
              7.20::oddjob::ppalmer    (span)