beth@cayman.COM (Beth Miaoulis) (07/29/89)
Hello, I am writing some csh scripts which use the rcs system to control our software development and I ran into something which reflects either a misunderstanding on my part or a bug in rcs.c (rev 4). I was expecting the rcs command to have a non-zero exit status if it failed because the last RCS file specified does not exist. In rcs.c it seems that a 0 return from pairfilenames, will allow the for-each-file do loop to continue, yet will mask any error returned. Is this how things are supposed to work? If so, any suggestions for how I can detect if rcs fails without reading stdout? Thank you, Beth Miaoulis P.S. Where's the best place to send rcs questions? Does Walter Tichy still care? -- ----- Beth Miaoulis (beth@cayman.com) Cayman Systems, Inc. (617)494-1999