Error Levels

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 09-12-92 (11:57)             Number: 258
From: TONY ELLIOTT                 Refer#: NONE
  To: LAWRENCE GORDON               Recvd: NO  
Subj: Error Levels                   Conf: (2) Quik_Bas

Lawrence,

There are a couple of ways to do it. BASIC has an internal routine
called "_EXIT". It's designed to do all of the internal BASIC clean-
up, and terminate your app with an errorlevel. Here's how it works:

        DECLARE SUB ExitLvl ALIAS "_EXIT" (BYVAL ErrorLevel%)

        'Set errorlevel 5
        ExitLvl 5

But, be careful! Using this routine within the QB environment will
terminate the IDE and return you to DOS! Another approach is to use an
assembly routine I wrote some time ago. It does the job nicely, and is
perfectly safe to use with in the IDE.  Hmm. I can't seem to locate the
code right now, but I'll dig it up if you find that you need it.

Tony
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