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Wep5622
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I'm trying to check the exit status of a system command, but I can't figure out how. I have this:
-SET &S = '\';
-SET &CMD = &APPROOT || &S || &DIR || &S ||&FILENAME;
-WINNT DEL &CMD


How do I check whether the DEL command succeeded?

I've also tried using SYSTEM(), but for some reason that returns status 1 (what does that even mean?), even though the command should succeed as far as I can tell.
For the record, I used this incantation:
-SET &CMD = 'DEL ' | &APPROOT || &S || &DIR || &S ||&FILENAME;
-SET &RETCODE = SYSTEM(&CMD.LENGTH, &CMD, 'D4');

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Wep5622
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Never mind, it seems I forgot to prepend the 'DEL ' substring to the &CMD variable in the SYSTEM()-case. That part works now.

Still, it would be good to know how to check the exit status of the first command.


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Be careful with &RETCODE, as it is a system variable.


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