Fusion handles missing assemblies poorly

Junfeng Zhang’s .NET Framework notes (http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2005/06/03/424680.aspx) referenced a bug logged against Fusion and answered as “Won’t Fix”. I do not think that Microsoft has correctly understood or responded to the problem.

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NMAKE – Reversing the error code from findstr or grep

If you’re using nmake, you’ll be familiar with this problem… I have logged some process, now I want to check for an error string in the log and terminate my build if it appears, and I don’t want to have to create a .CMD file to do it. The problem is that tools like grep and findstr return a success code when they find something, and that’s the opposite of what we want.

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