Hello Björn!   
      
   25 Nov 2014 05:27, Björn Felten wrote to All:   
      
    BF> I've always found it hard to understand the underlying thought behind    
    BF> the original error levels from the old MakeNl. And it seems like we    
    BF> are trying to maintain those even in our new version.   
      
   if we change them scripts would fail   
      
    BF> Alas, let's try not to break any batch files from 20 years ago, but    
    BF> really?   
      
   +1   
      
    BF>      0  = Process mode - no errors encountered   
    BF>      1  = Process mode - no fatal errors encountered   
    BF>      2  = Process mode - one or more fatal errors encountered   
    BF>      3  = Test mode - no errors encountered   
    BF>      4  = Test mode - no fatal errors encountered   
    BF>      5  = Test mode - one or more fatal errors encountered   
    BF>    254  = MakeNL aborted - I/O error   
    BF>    255  = MakeNL aborted - Control file error   
      
   feel free to not use return codes :)   
      
   echo "war" && echo "done"   
      
    BF> Why the separate, otherwise identical, levels for process mode and    
    BF> for test mode?   
      
   its not same test   
      
    BF> Anyway, we can leave that be -- even if I doubt that there are that    
    BF> many systems out there that actually uses those error levels -- but    
    BF> one level I would like is for "Unchanged output file will NOT be    
    BF> submitted".   
      
   bad for daily updates   
      
    BF> When eventually the output file is changed, I want to know, so I    
    BF> can delete the old one (that at least for us in zone 2 has a different    
    BF> file extension on a regional level) and hatch out the new one.   
      
   check for not zerro return codes there would be error, so dont delete source,   
   but if zerro return its updated, what ever dont know if bash on windows   
   changes that   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
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