From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   Paul Emmons wrote:   
      
   > I just discovered that, in Windows-XT, DIR returns errorlevel 1 if no files   
   > are found corresponding to the specifications submitted.  (This is not true   
   > in Windows 98).  I was about to kick myself for not knowing this long   
   > since, but the help for DIR does not document this useful feature.   
   >   
   > In this case, "File Not Found" is displayed, presumably on the device   
   > STDERR.  If the output of DIR is redirected to a file, this message does   
   > not appear in the file.   
   >   
   > My first question: I am using DIR in a batch file and am handling the file-   
   > not-found condition by means of the errorlevel.  Is there a way to suppress   
   > the display of the message "File Not Found"?   
      
   dir 2>nul   
      
   > Second question: What other commands might now return errorlevel codes that   
   > didn't use to do so?   
      
   It may help to remember that the 9x line was seperate from NT. Dir has   
   *always* returned an errorlevel in NT. If you want to find out what else   
   does, just start experimenting, or script it:   
      
     %*   
     if errorlevel 1 echo YES   
      
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