Re: SOUPER Return Code?

Chris Green (cgreen@dircon.co.uk)
Fri, 26 Apr 1996 09:00:03 +0100 (BST)

On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Bill McCarthy wrote:

> I use Souper under OS/2 Warp to read and post to newsgroups (although
> this is probably not an OS specific problem). The command I use to
> send posts is:
>
> souper -s my_isp_mail_host my_id my_password
>
> I check the return code to see if it's safe to archive then delete
> the ZIP file. The puppy seems to return success, even it can't
> connect or send my posts. Does anyone out there know of a fix for
> this problem (such as another way of detecting a failure)?
>
There's a *very* simple change to the source code you can do to fix
this, I have just sent the change to Chin so, hopefully, it may get
incorporated in the next version of Souper.

If you want I can E-Mail you an executable with the fix, or the source
to change if you have a C compiler.

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