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- ERR_RET, last modified 9/20/89.
-
- There have been many times that I wanted to know what error
- level a program returned when it terminated. The only way that I am
- aware of to determine this is to set up a series of tests within a
- batch file. This can be very cumbersome, especially if any of the 255
- possible values might be returned. I have never seen a utility that
- will run another program and report the returned error level. This is
- a shame as there are many utilities that use this facility to report
- system parameters or errors and a simple way to test them is needed.
- Some of the programs I am writing are designed to be called by another
- program and to return some status information via the error level. This
- kind of utility would be very handy for testing and debugging. I
- therefore wrote this short program that does just that task.
-
- To use it, at the DOS prompt, type ERR_RET and the command
- line parameters that you were planning to use. For example, if you
- were going to type:
-
- MYPROG -C -X INFILE.DAT
-
- you would type:
-
- ERR_RET MYPROG -C -X INFILE.DAT.
-
- Your program will be run as it would have normally been and a message
- will be issued at the end with the returned error level.
-
- If you run ERR_RET without any other parameters, you will get
- a short message with the correct syntax. If there is not enough memory
- or ERR_RET cannot find your program in the current directory or DOS PATH,
- you will get an appropriate error message.
-
- ERR_RET was compiled with Turbo C, Version 2.0. It may be freely
- copied, modified, used, etc. If you distribute it, please keep the 3 files
- together. Please do not modify this documentation and be sure to mark very
- clearly any modifications that you have added.
-
- Comments may be sent to:
-
- Steven Fischkoff, M.D.
- CompuServe: 76367,307
- GEnie: EOSINOPHIL
- Prodigy: SVBC97A
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-