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From: rsingh1@dahlia.waterloo.edu
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Subject: ls failed returncode 8925326 ? ? ? ? ? ?
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Date: 21 Dec 89 20:36:45 GMT
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Hi, I'm using:

LS 2.0 by Justin V. McCormick 1988
 
And while this seriously wonderful ls program works really well, I have 
a few problems with using it.
 
Here is the first:

6> rx "address command 'list -l'"
-----rwed 89-08-20 10:34:16    1       61 .info
-----rwed 89-12-16 19:13:21   Directory   c
-----rwed 89-12-16 19:44:31   Directory   devs
-----rwed 88-08-13 18:11:55    1      370 Disk.info
-----rwed 88-08-13 18:02:32    2      894 DRAWER.info
-----rwed 89-10-01 10:12:25   Directory   fonts
-----rwed 89-12-16 19:12:53   Directory   l
-----rwed 89-12-16 19:13:01   Directory   libs
-----rwed 89-09-09 20:39:36   Directory   Prefs
-----rwed 88-08-13 18:11:57    2      894 Prefs.info
-----rwed 89-12-18 21:36:29   Directory   s
-----rwed 88-08-13 18:08:18    0        0 Shell
-----rwed 88-08-13 18:09:36    1      405 Shell.info
-----rwed 89-12-08 00:06:03   Directory   t
Dirs:8   Files:6    Blocks:7     Bytes:2624
list failed returncode 8925326 
 
The list failed returncode 8925326 bothers me.
 
Why does it return this failure?

And what does such an undefined failure represent?

Something else that concerns me is that when I use this ls program
(I renamed it LIST in my c: directory (I use normal list as ls)), is
that when I run it through the aux: device, or through a special shell
written in arexx, it buggers up the next lines input.
 
I mean, that if, from my terminal, (using steve drews aux: device), 
I did a list, and pushed [return] when it was complete, It would display
'Unknown Command: " "' (or something close to that).  Here is a
clipped example:
 
3:34PM> list vd0:
$$TMP     Errors    Menu      Messages  UserLogs
list failed returncode 9014278
              241 *-* Address Command null;
+++ Command returned 9019604
3:34PM> dir
Unknown command
3:34PM>
 
Regardless of what I type after the list command, it won't work. The next
command, AFTER the one that doesn't work, works fine.
 
Could someone explain why this is happening?

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