in reply to Getting the errorlevel from a system call

Maybe I'm missing something, but you say that you have an app that's returning a four-byte value, and yet $?>>8 is only letting you read the first four bytes. Wouldn't the first four bytes in a four-byte value constitute the entire value?

thor

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Re^2: Getting the errorlevel from a system call
by ambrus (Abbot) on Jun 18, 2004 at 21:55 UTC

    "first of the four bytes" the op has said.

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      eep...that's what I get for reading too fast. Now off to answer the original question.

      thor

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