On Sun, 3 Aug 2025 19:35:41 +0000, Seymour J Metz  wrote:

>In addition to the fact that you're using RC instead of RESULT, you're 
>changing RC before you display it. After RC=$?, RC and $? will have the same 
>value.
>
I suspect that was intended as a shell command, somehow misplaced.

>It's a good practice to use a string literal or a variable when passing a stem 
>name; if you ever set a default value (out.=foo) then out. will no longer have 
>the value. 'OUT.'.
>
... a variable to which a string literal has been assigned ...

-- 
gil

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