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From: mlelstv@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Michael van Elst )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Spawning programs, problems and questions
Message-ID: <726@faui10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 3 Nov 88 19:17:24 GMT
References: <8810311855.AA05614@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: mlelstv@faui44.UUCP (Michael van Elst (kdebugger))
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, W - Germany
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In article <8810311855.AA05614@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	The problem with Execute() is that you can't get the exit value
>of the program.

Since Kick1.2 you get the return value of the program and a -1 if
your program couldn't get loaded.
Thus you can't distinguish between 'not found' and 'return value = -1'.

But if you Execute("RUN program",0,0) you get the return value of the
RUN command and the program's return value is lost.

				Michael van Elst

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