cygwin.bat improvements (was Re: Cygwin on XP disapearing terminal mystery)

[Igor Peshansky]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > Wouldn't that be:
> >
> >   if not errorlevel 0 pause
>
> Contrary to all common sense, "if not errorlevel A" means "if %ERRORLEVEL%
> < A", not an equality test...  So the above will *always* pause.  Also, in
                                                   ^^^^^^^^
s/always/never/.  D'oh.

> command.com (Win9x), I believe you can only have a "goto" after the "if
> errorlevel" test...

	Igor
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