7 replies to this topic

[Mike Lowcock]

Running 5.5 on NT4.

I know using SYSTEM() is a no no because of portability, but is anybody using it under NT?

We are getting scripts to run ok on the server but cannto get errorlevel returned.

Anybody out there with ideas?

[Mike Schoen]

It's been a while since I dealt with this, but I think that you only get a success-fail of starting the system command and that you dont get exit status set by the commands or executables run.

Have you tried to write the errorlevels to a text file that is then read in after the
system command is executed? Its not nice, but you could get results...

[Mike Lowcock]

Yes having to read the result from a file is just not as neat as checking a return code. We may go down that root though.

[Rob Donovan]

Hi Mike,

The SYSTEM command returns the exit code from the script back to ProIV.

If you have a script like this...

@ECHO OFF
...
...
...
exit 5

And call it with...

#X = SYSTEM("rob.bat")

Then #X will be 5.

Is that what you mean? Or does your system not do that?

I tried it on XP (and it also works like this in *nix)

Rob D.

[Mike Lowcock]

Hi Rob,

things work if we run script on client. It's trying to run script on the server that is the problem. Your code above works if we prefix command with GUI. This seems to run script on client.

If we prefix command with WIN or omit it then script executes correctly on server but we are not getting anything returned. The server is NT4 so whether Windows Server 2000 or Server 2003 would do better I don't know. I'll run it past PROIV!

Mike

[Rob Donovan]

Ok, I tried it both ways and it works for me both ways.

Maybe its something to do with NT.. Both my machines have XP on them.

Rob D.

[Mike Lowcock]

Hi Rob,

can you just confirm the operating system the server is running.

Is it Windows XP professional, Windows 2000 Server, Windows NT4, or even Windows 2003 Server?

Mike

[Rob Donovan]

Yep,

I've got 3 PC's that all work fine.

2 with WinXP Prof. 2002 SP1 and one portable with WinXP Prof. 2002

Rob D.