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From: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Execute -- What does it always return -1?
Keywords: amigados dos execute
Message-ID: <1547@sas.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 90 03:31:34 GMT
References: <541@qusunb.queensu.CA>
Reply-To: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <541@qusunb.queensu.CA> cmichael@qucis.queensu.CA (Ian Carmichael) writes:
>Does Execute always return -1?  In the following code, caller always
>prints "Success = -1", regardless of the value of N in callee.c, or even
>if callee does not exist.  Why?  What is "the right way" to get the 
>return code from Execute?

You ARE getting the return code from Execute.  What you WANT is the return
code from the program you executed.  The -1 is saying 'yep, I launched the
process for you successfully.'  (-1 being DOS_TRUE, 0xffffffff).  

Anybody know how to get the return code of the program you Execute()ed?

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