From: notsaying@nospicedham.127.0.0.1   
      
   On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:28:10 GMT, aen@nospicedham.spamtrap.com wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 16:50:35 -0000 (UTC), "Kerr-Mudd,John"   
   >  wrote:   
   >>...   
   >>I get 0 every time under XP, but thanks.   
   >>...   
   > Uh well, my old machine with an XP was gathering dust anyway.   
   >   
   > I copied a program that returns 2 and the geterror prog over to XP.   
   >   
   > Then I first ran the program in DOSBox on my machine and then   
   >   
   > debug geterror.com   
   > u (which showed 0772:0104 as the address after the int 21h function 4D   
   > g 0772:0104 (which showed AX=0002)   
   >   
   > Next I ran the same thing on the XP machine in cmd   
   >   
   > u (which showed 0d35:0104 as the address after the int 21h function 4D   
   > g 0d35:0104 (which showed AX=0000)   
   >   
   > But XP has cmd and not the dos command (which has no %errorlevel%, but   
   > cmd uses   
   >   
   > echo %errorlevel%   
   >   
   > to show the return code and when I ran the program and then   
   >   
   > echo %errorlevel% I got the 2, so that's what you should use.   
      
   Thanks again!   
      
      
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