Re: shell return values

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:

> I've made a small app that want to call through :sys
> AAP then bails out because the shell returned 1.
> I'm on Winxp, using cmd.exe. I don't understand why
> the return value of 1 means that there is something
> wrong. Where can I find documentation on the return
> values of the shell? I've looked through msdn, but
> couldn't find any specific values. I guess you must
> have found something since only the return value
> of 0 is accepted.

This is a Unix thing: an exit value zero means OK, a non-zero value
indicates a problem.

In case you need to ignore the value you can do:

	@try:
		:sys your-command-here
	@except:
		:print Warning: your-command-here returned non-zero

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