Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:24:50 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Cc: fighteer AT cs DOT com, grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Install thingy
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On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> > Either return error codes, or the installer could parse the text output of
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I think that's next to impossible if `djverify' is a batch file...

The batch file doesn't generate the status by itself (you can't do that
with ye olde COMMAND.COM, I think), but rather runs a program and looks at
its exit status.  The installer should run that program directly.