Dave Lemire
theo@ccnet3.ccnet.com wrote:
>
> I wrote one of those scripts that:
>
> 1) packs my news/mail in a zipped, soup packet
> 2) Zmodems the packet from my Unix shell account to my Pc
> 3) runs yarn's ``import'' on the newly arrived packet
> 4) Prompts to delete my mail file, on Unix if 1, 2 and 3 went well.
>
> The script does a lot of error error checking mostly to make sure I dont
> lose mail somewhere along the previous process. However, the import
> program apparently does not return a DOS errorlevel if it does not
> successfully import a soup packet.
>
> Import delivers various error messages to the screen when it has trouble,
> but apparently does not return an error level.
>
> Can anyone suggest how my script could test for the success of:
>
> import filename-of-soup-packet
>
> Right now I can only display imports screen messages.
>
> thanks in advance