X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:49:06 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin.bat improvements (was Re: Cygwin on XP disapearing terminal mystery) Message-ID: <20060201184906.GA7306@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <013120061516.12540.43DF7F67000B576B000030FC22058891160A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> <87mzhbkb9k.fsf@newsguy.com> <43E02D37.6456298F@dessent.net> <20060201035104.GA12232@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <43E0360F.C2CF85F9@dessent.net> <20060201163737.GE1648@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20060201175628.GI1648@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 01:31:08PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: >On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 12:06:08PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: >> >However, most bash invocations should exit with a 0 exit code. So, why >> >not simply do something like the test below? >> > >> >if not errorlevel 1 goto nopause >> >pause >> >:nopause >> > >> >Also, "command not found" sets error code to 127, so the "1" above can be >> >changed to "127". > >(actually Dave's right -- it's "9009"). > >> Wouldn't that be: >> >> if not errorlevel 0 pause > >Contrary to all common sense, "if not errorlevel A" means "if %ERRORLEVEL% >< A", not an equality test... So the above will *always* pause. Also, in >command.com (Win9x), I believe you can only have a "goto" after the "if >errorlevel" test... Ok. I seem to vaguely recall this from MS-DOS days but I don't ever recall that only goto is allowed. I just tried this on Windows 98 and it is possible to put something besides a 'goto' in the if clause. Can anyone confirm/deny this on Windows 95? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/