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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

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