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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 16:17:03 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: More error level issues
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On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:58:22PM -0500, Brian Bruns wrote:
>On Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:45 PM [EST], Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg01382.html
>
>Yeah, I know of that post.  I'm still _highly_ confused as to this -
>chalk it up to the fact I'm more used to dealing with return codes in
>Linux, so forgive my ignorance.  I'm also not the greatest programmer
>in the world.
>
>Your telling me an exit code of 1 inside of cygwin (and Linux for that
>matter) is supposed to be considered as errorlevel 256 by Windows
>rather then 1?  I'm sorry if I am not catching on here entirely of why
>this is.

The referenced message tells you exactly what you should expect at the
DOS prompt if a cygwin program exits with a status of "1", i.e., you
should expect a "256".

cgf

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