> i have a set of shellscripts (/bin/sh) and use "return [value]" inside. 
> it works fine on netbsd, but one of my colleagues using freebsd has 
> problems with this. shell complains:
> return can be used only in sourced scripts and inside cycles...
> 
> the situation looks as follows: script 1 calls other scripts (it just 
> executes them, variables are transferred via command line parameters)... 
> i.e. i don't source them...

Can you supply a short example?

	David

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