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In article <4ccsvb$q91@scctn01.sp.ac.sg>,
   s28454@nntpserver.sp.ac.sg (Dr Hu Yufan) wrote:
>Is there any way to pass some information from a external DOS command and 
>let the login script do different things base on this information?
>
>In UNIX, we have the exit code to be examined by shell's "if" command.
>In DOS batch file, a primitive "if errlevel".
>
>How to do the similar thing in Netware login script? Or is there any 
>better ways to pass some info from a DOS command executed in login script 
>to the login script?
>
>Thank you very much for your advisory.

There are several ways to approach this.  The login scripts do have
IF "%ERROR_LEVEL"<> "0" THEN ...
construct.  Another way I came up with the other day, but haven't tested yet 
uses the include statement in the login script.  I've not tested to see if 
INCLUDE can use a file off of the local hard drive, or if it has to be on the 
server, but one thought was to have your batch file do something like:
-------
REM NETSET sets up the user environment

NETSET
ECHO WRITE "Your TCP/IP settings are %TCPNAME% (%IP%)" > c:\temp\lscript2

REM The batch file will substitute the environment variables, so they need to 
REM be in BATCH file format, not Login Script format.
-------
and then put in the login script:
-------
INCLUDE "C:\TEMP\LSCRIPT2"
-------
which should execute C:\TEMP\LSCRIPT2 as though it were part of the login 
script.

Has anyone tried this?  Would it work?  I haven't had time to test it yet 
myself.


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