AW: [Mono-list] Windows: Propagating exit codes in .bat files?

[Shantanu Kumar]

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 13:33, Jochen Wezel wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Please pay attention: in Win98, there is no /b parameter available.
> A line as EXIT %ERRORLEVEL% exits, but I cannot say if it only exits the batch or the COMMAND.COM (that is the intended usage for the /B parameter in CMD.EXE)
> 
> In Win95, the EXIT command might be missing. I haven't tested, but I cannot remember to have seen it.
> 
> Another chance for Win9x systems would be to provide .COM files instead of .BAT files. But this would need some knowledge on building .COM files I haven't got.
> 

Building COM files is straightforward. The entire file-content is loaded at offset address 0x100 and all segment registers are initialised same as CS. There used to be a utility called Exe2Bin to convert EXE into COM files and probably even TLINK (from the old toolchain from Borland) can do this.

Regards,
Shantanu