> I recently found that RUNCODE does not return the
> "runcode" from the program executed by RUN.

> It DOES return negative values. To indicate problems
> when the RUN command has bad syntax.

> Does anyone recall if this was a bug?

> I have no chance at the present time to upgrade.

> THanks

> Mike Kuhn

> It is not a bug, look at the help file for what the negative values
> indicate.

> > I recently found that RUNCODE does not return the
> > "runcode" from the program executed by RUN.

> > It DOES return negative values. To indicate problems
> > when the RUN command has bad syntax.

> > Does anyone recall if this was a bug?

> > I have no chance at the present time to upgrade.

> > THanks

> > Mike Kuhn

> Your right the book explains the negative values.

> When I  run "anyprogram parm1 parm2"
> and the
>         runvalue = runcode()

> runvalue is always 0, even when "anyprogram" returns
> something other than 0, like > 0.

> I guess this was not explained in the original post.

> > It is not a bug, look at the help file for what the negative values
> > indicate.

> > > I recently found that RUNCODE does not return the
> > > "runcode" from the program executed by RUN.

> > > It DOES return negative values. To indicate problems
> > > when the RUN command has bad syntax.

> > > Does anyone recall if this was a bug?

> > > I have no chance at the present time to upgrade.

> > > THanks

> > > Mike Kuhn

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