Re: [Gnuplot-info] How to ignore "popen failed"?

[Dave H. <da...@ho...>]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2017, sfeam via gnuplot-info wrote:

> The issue is not the missing file per se, it's that apparently Windows 
> considers this sufficiently severe to return an error code from the 
> "dir" command.  It isn't a problem on unix/linux, where "ls" will print 
> a warning message but returns success.  So I imagine it would be 
> sufficient to wrap your "dir" command in a script MYDIR that always 
> returns success even if the real "dir" fails:

Unix (FreeBSD):

aneurin% ls fred
ls: fred: No such file or directory
aneurin% echo $?
1


Linux (Debian):

dave@debbie:~$ ls fred
ls: cannot access fred: No such file or directory
dave@debbie:~$ echo $?
2


You were saying?

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