The "exit" command terminates the command shell and not the bat file. You exit a bat file by "goto :eof".
-----Original Message----- From: John Cortell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 9:34 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: launching Ant from a perl script I had tried that, too, but that opens up a different can of worms. The perl script I'm writing can't assume that .pl is registered as an executable extension (such that one can simply type, for example, runant.pl, at a command line and the file will automatically by fed to perl.exe). So I can't do something like: `runant.pl -version`; in my perl script. It would have to be `perl $ENV{ANT_HOME}/bin/runant.pl -version`; OK. That works, but my actual scenario is more complicated. I'm not directly writing a perl script but rather composing a data file. In the data file, I'll be specifying a literal string that will be invoked as a command in a perl script. Yes; it's all very messy and I'll spare you all the gory details. I could probably make that work with some enhancements to the system I'm working with, but that's a lot of work that could be avoided if ant.bat file simply returned the error code. Since I can fix *that* issue by simply adding an 'exit' at the end of ant.bat, that's what I'll probably do. Hopefully someone in the Apache ant development team is following this thread and makes the change in the production bat file. Thanks for the suggestion, John At 05:54 AM 3/11/2005, Keith Hatton wrote: >Isn't there a runant.pl in your ANT_HOME/bin? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
