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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: ls failed returncode 8925326 ? ? ? ? ? ?
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Date: 20 Dec 89 22:39:49 GMT
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In <19443@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, rsingh1@dahlia.waterloo.edu writes:
>Hi, I'm using:
>
>LS 2.0 by Justin V. McCormick 1988
> 
>The list failed returncode 8925326 bothers me.
> 
>Why does it return this failure?

Probably because Mr. McCormick didn't specifically set a return value for the
program.

>And what does such an undefined failure represent?

It probably represents a final test that neglected to use ls in a script, since
the CLI doesn't pay attention to the return code.

It is a nice program, insn't it?

-larry

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