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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 09:24:32 LCL
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- From: Peter Flass <flass@136.161.128.3>
- Subject: Re: Capturing System Command Output (was: SH Backquote)
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- > The committee is leaning towards providing yet another special variable
- > to indicate the completion status of the command to the external
- > environment in a standard manner. ...
- > ... Hence the committee is leaning towards adding the
- > special variable "rs", which would be assigned the value -1, 0, or 1
- > upon the completion of an external command, meaning failure, normal,
- > or error status.
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- This is a tall order -- A REXX implementation would have to know the
- significance of _all possible_ return codes from _all possible_
- environments. Since environments are being multiplied constantly
- it might be less confusing not to try.
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