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From: ecphssrw@io.csun.edu (Stephen Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP 1.3 Bug or Feature?
Message-ID: <770@solaria.csun.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 89 13:49:58 GMT
References: <8906160323.AA21605@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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In-reply-to: FVEST@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU (Floyd Vest)

In article <8906160323.AA21605@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, FVEST@DUCVAX (Floyd Vest) writes:
>
>I have a script that I execute via a runback in my startup-sequence
>that contains code on the order of:
>...
>     list #? lformat "bar %s" | execute
>
>It stopped working.  When I executed the script via execute, it
>worked; when I executed via run it worked; when I executed via
>arun >nil: <nil: it failed.

The problem is that the bar syntax is parsed by the ARP Shell, which
receives the command line using both the Execute and Run commands, but
not the Arun command.   You would find the script also would not
work if you tried to use it from a standard AmigaDOS CLI or a CBM 1.3
Shell.


Steve Walton