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Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC

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From Ronald <gettingchoppy@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC
Date Sun, 14 Jun 2020 01:29:38 +1200
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In message <rc2bqu$8mt$1@dont-email.me>
          druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:

> On 13/06/2020 02:01, Ronald wrote:
> > I'd like to be able to use return codes from a unixlib program
> > but when called from an Obey file.
> > It looks like the only way to do this would be to have either a BASIC
> > or C wrapper/shell to do the running.
> > The only advantage would be that it could set a system variable that
> > an Obey file could read for any programs return code, avoiding setting
> > the system variable in every individual (ported) program.
> 
> RISC OS already does this, Sys$ReturnCode should be set to the result 
> from the program, but note that not all programs return a non zero code 
> in the case of an error.
> 
> ---druck

So it does, looking forward to using it.
Important failures can be acted upon loudly now.

Ronald

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Calling Ghostscript from BASIC "Rob Hemmings (News)" <rhnews@dsl.pipex.com> - 2020-06-08 15:22 +0100
  Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2020-06-08 15:39 +0100
    Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC "Rob Hemmings (News)" <rhnews@dsl.pipex.com> - 2020-06-08 15:44 +0100
    Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-06-08 16:19 +0100
      Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2020-06-08 20:22 +0200
        Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2020-06-08 21:15 +0100
          Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2020-06-09 10:58 +0100
            Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2020-06-09 15:09 +0100
              Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Ronald <gettingchoppy@gmail.com> - 2020-06-13 13:01 +1200
                Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2020-06-13 12:03 +0100
                Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Ronald <gettingchoppy@gmail.com> - 2020-06-14 01:29 +1200
        Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC "Rob Hemmings (News)" <rhnews@dsl.pipex.com> - 2020-06-08 23:37 +0100
  Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Ronald <gettingchoppy@gmail.com> - 2020-06-14 16:38 +1200
    Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-06-14 07:40 +0100
      Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC "Rob Hemmings (News)" <rhnews@dsl.pipex.com> - 2020-06-14 08:48 +0100
      Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Ronald <gettingchoppy@gmail.com> - 2020-06-14 20:27 +1200
        Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-06-14 10:01 +0100
          Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2020-06-14 15:41 +0100
            Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Ronald <gettingchoppy@gmail.com> - 2020-06-15 14:51 +1200
              Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2020-06-15 08:56 +0100
                Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Ronald <gettingchoppy@gmail.com> - 2020-06-15 20:30 +1200
        Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2020-06-14 15:44 +0100

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