What's the return status of a pipeline???

[Maarten Litmaath]

harry at moncam.co.uk (Jangling Neck Nipper) writes:
\...
\$BIN/psfilter -b $* | $BIN/lwriter -pI "$LWRITER" $* >>& $acct
\
\#
\# Say what happened
\#
\quit:

This `label command' resets $status to 0.

\set printer_status = $status
\...
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