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From: erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Solution for EXECUTE: No K Directive
Message-ID: <1414.AA1414@americ>
Date: 30 Jul 89 21:09:28 GMT
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From: dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dale Larson) Message-ID: <3020@blake.acs.washington.edu>

>>Thanks to hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu, I solved the problem which was causing
>>my script to bomb with the error "EXECUTE: No K Directive"  The solution
>>was to begin the file with two lines: ".bra {" and ".ket }".  
>
>I still do not understand two things about this problem:  First, and most
>importantly, why could I find no reference whatsoever to this error message
>in any description of EXECUTE or on any page listed under "error" in the
>index of any Amiga documentation?  (Maybe I forgot to put on my glasses :-)
>Second, why was it that I got the error message if the script was called
>from my startup-sequence, but not if it was called from the CLI the 
>startup-sequence bombed into???

I've had this same exact problem but only after I ran one of a few PD
programs that I downloaded from a BBS. (Sorry don't KNOW which). My 
Startup-sequence worked flawlessly for at least a month without change
and all of a sudden *BANG* No K directive errors aborting the rest of
the SS. Extremely frustrating. As you say, there is very little if no
information in the manuals concerning this problem (that I could find).

What *I* finally ended up doing was to reformat my HD (GVP 40Q) and
restore it. THAT fixed my problem. I haven't seen it rear its ugly
head since. Maybe some programmers idea of a joke ? dunno. Being the
cautious type I renamed my execute command and wrote a short alias to 
refer the execute keyword to the proper abbreviation. This happened 
at about the same time the dreaded IRQ virus was revealed. Just made
me think VIRUS !


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