Re: overcoming the MSDOS errorlevel problem

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From: Charles Dye
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 00:00

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In article <30d260e6.16907452@news.iquest.net> rclark@iquest.net (Robert B. Clark) writes:
>From: rclark@iquest.net (Robert B. Clark)
>Subject: Re: overcoming the MSDOS errorlevel problem
>Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 06:08:58 GMT

>John Savage <koala@sydney.dialix.com.au> wrote:

>>Amongst the myriad shortcomings of MSDOS we must include the pair:
>>
>>  *  FIND does not return an errorlevel to confirm a match
>>  *  COPY does not copy a file of length 0

>Actually, FIND does return an errorlevel in MS-DOS v6 or later:

>        0       At least one match was found.
>        1       No matches were found.
>        2       An error occurred during the search.

As for COPY, well, it's more intuitive than PIP.  IBM was also disappointed
with COPY; which is why we have XCOPY.  Try it.

raster@indirect.com

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From: raster@indirect.com (Charles Dye)
Subject: Re: overcoming the MSDOS errorlevel problem
Date: 1995/12/26
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