Re: SCIIBIN Problem?

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

bird@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (j.l.walters) writes:

>I changed a bins file so that it was invalid. I then
>creatred a shell script:

>sciibin bins
>if [ $? != 0 ]
>then
>	echo "Bad stuff happened"
>else
>	echo "Everything was cool"
>fi

>Unfortunately, the return code from sciibin was "0" so the answer above
>was: "Everything was cool." This was in conflict with the error messages:

Maybe sciibin managed to do some of the file but got errors in other parts of
the file. If there was no terminal error, it continued with the next chunk of
binSCII and there was no abnormal termination and therefore exit status was 0
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