>>>>> "John" == John Maier <JohnAM@datastorm.com> writes:

> Okay this is what I want to do, I want to be able to read the value returned 
> from a program from within a csh script.
> I.e. I execute a.out from within my script, I want to test to see if a.out 
> returned a 0, 1, 2, or 3 etc.

I think this may be what you're looking for, from the csh man page:

     status         The status returned by the last command.  If it ter-
                    minated abnormally, then 0200 is added to the status.
                    Built-in commands which fail return exit status `1', all
                    other built-in commands set status `0'.

Eric