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MS-DOS ERRORLEVELS - what do they mean?

BACKUP
0 Successful Backup
1 No Files to Back Up
2 File Sharing Conflict
3 User Pressed CTRL-C Backup Incomplete
4 Fatal err; Backup incomplete

CHDSK
0 No Errors
255 Errors Detected

CHOICE
0 User Pressed CTRL-C
255 Errors Detected

DEFRAG
0 Successful Defragmentation
1 Internal Error in Processing
2 No Free Clusters ;( Needs at least one)
3 Usre Pressed CTRL-C
4 General Error in Processing
5 Disk Read Error
6 Disk Write Error
7 Cluster Allocation Error ( Use CHDSK /F)
8 Memory Allocation Error
9 Insufficient Memory

DELTREE
0 Successful Deletion of Directory + Contents

DISCOMP
0 Disk Compare Exactly
1 Disk are Not the Same
2 User Pressed CTRL-C
3 Read or Write Error
4 Invalid Drive,Memory or Syntax Error

DISKCOPY
0 Successful Copy
1Nonfatal Read or Write Error
2 User Pressed CRTL-C
3 Read Problem or Disk Format Problem
4 Invalid Drive, Memory or Syntax Error

FIND
0 Successful Search
1 Search Complete no Matches Found
2 Error during Search

GRAFTABL
0 Table Loaded Successfully
1 Previously Loaded Table Replaced
2 No New Table Loaded
3 Incorrect MS-DOS Version


KEYB

0 Successful Keyboard Load
1 Invalid Command Line
2 Invalid Keyboard Defination Table
3 Cannot Create table
4 CON Device Error
5 Code Page not Prepared
6 Missing Translation Table
7 Incorrect MS-DOS Version


MOVE

0 Files Moved Successfully
1 Error in Moving Files