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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: system() always returns 0?
Keywords: MSC5.0
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Date: 26 Jan 89 05:59:19 GMT
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In article <782@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:
>Has anyone encountered a problem with the Microsoft C 5.0 compiler always
>returning a 0 from the system() call, no matter what the actual command
>executed by system() returns?

The same brain dead result occurs with the Turbo C system call.  Presumably
the problem is in command.com.  I wrote my own system() using spawn to get
around this.

Remember, you don't get to be a multi-billion dollar company by doing this
for the conveience of users.