Mark@hamster.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell) (03/19/91)
I am trying to write a very simple program but I am having a difficulty with the halt function. I want the program to end and set an errorlevel so I can test it via a batch file. Example: program test; begin halt(1); end. should it not give an errorlevel of 1? XYZ.BAT contains: test if errorlevel 1 ver It does not print out the dos version. I beleive I have used this in the past, but I only have 6.0 loaded on my machine now. Any ideas? Does anyone with 5.x want to try it? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mark Bramwell, VE3PZR Located in sunny London, Ontario Internet: mark@hamster.business.uwo.ca IP Address: 129.100.22.100 Packet: VE3PZR @ VE3GYQ UWO Phone: (519) 661-3714
amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (alan mead) (03/19/91)
Mark@hamster.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell) writes: >program test; >begin > halt(1); >end. >should it not give an errorlevel of 1? >XYZ.BAT contains: >test >if errorlevel 1 ver >It does not print out the dos version. I beleive I have used this in the >past, but I only have 6.0 loaded on my machine now. Any ideas? Does anyone >with 5.x want to try it? It worked when I changed the errorlevel to 2 (I introduced a bug and didn't try 1). I believe I've used 1 before successfully. -alan mead : amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu
ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (03/19/91)
In article <26295@adm.brl.mil> Mark@hamster.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell) writes: >I am trying to write a very simple program but I am having a difficulty with >the halt function. I want the program to end and set an errorlevel so I can : >XYZ.BAT contains: >test >if errorlevel 1 ver : Your problem is not with the halt command but with your syntax in using errorlevel. Try eg consulting your MsDos manual, or get /pc/ts/tsbat24.arc from our site for studing batch programming. The latter contains many useful batch tricks and much general batch knowledge. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37 School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun