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From: sasjjr@sas.UUCP (Jack Rouse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Execute -- Why does it always return -1?
Keywords: amigados dos execute
Message-ID: <1562@sas.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 90 22:25:30 GMT
References: <541@qusunb.queensu.CA> <929@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Reply-To: sasjjr@sas.UUCP (Jack Rouse)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <929@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
>Since the CLI structure is deleted when the Execute()ed programs are done,
>I don't think you can get the return value of the last command.

Apparently, since 1.2, the result code of the executed command is
returned through the secondary result (i.e. IoErr()).  This may not
work with some Execute() patches (like "SetExecute" which came with WShell
before 1.2 was available :-).
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