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On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Craig A. Berry wrote: > C<use vmsish 'status'> would preserve the complete 32-bit status on > return from system(), but it would not be shifted left by 8 bits as > the tests expect. We could then omit right shifting back by 8 before > comparing what we got with what we expected, but by that point we are > not really testing the same functionality at all. OK, we could either skip the tests or provide VMS specific numbers to compare to and sort of test the same functionality - couldn't we?. Peter PrymmerThread Previous