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From: C475141@umcvmb.missouri.edu (BRIAN WHITMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Another how do you do .... in AmigaDOS
Message-ID: <17834@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 16 Jun 89 15:00:25 GMT
Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU
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I am attempting to write a general script file that when executed will
will generate a more specific script file but I am having trouble.  The
general script file contains about four lines in it.  The first three
lines look something like the following:

   list >ram:md df1:%?.zoo lformat="makedir df1:%s.dir"
   list >ram:zf df1:%?.zoo lformat="df1:zoo -extract df1:%s.dir/%s
   list >ram:rn df1:%?.zoo lformat="rename df1:%s df1:%s.dir/%s

Then I plan o preceding on to join these three files together and set the
s bit with a protect and then execute the joined file.  Sound simple eh?

Well when I look at the file ram:md it looks fine, so far so good.  Then
when I look at ram:zf or ram:rn the trouble appears.  Does the lformat
keyword of the list command only use the last %s or what?  My results in
ram:zf look like this

    df1:zoo -extract df1:.dir/file_name
                        ^
                        -  there should have been file_name here too.

also in the file ram:rn my results look similar:

   rename df1: df1:file_mane.dir/file_name
              ^
              - again the file_name is missing.

If this is invalid why? and how can I correct it?

thanks
Brian Whitman
c475141@umcvmb.bitnet