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From: claudio@forty2.UUCP (Claudio Nieder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Missing k directive
Message-ID: <1107@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 89 23:01:13 GMT
References: <15503@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1105@forty2.UUCP>
Reply-To: claudio@forty2.UUCP (Claudio Nieder)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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In article <1105@forty2.UUCP> I wrote:
|I have some similar problems now with my Shell-Startup. I added 3-4 aliases
|and changed the prompt definition from the original 1.3 Shell-Startup.
|Now I get the missig k directive error whenever I start the Shell
|from Workbench using the Shell Icon . It *doesn't* happen when I 
|execute it afterwards from the just opened shell or when I open a
|new shell using the newshell command !

Thanks to everybody who sent me mail, telling me that I probably have
a "<" somewherer in my Shell-Startup. After cleaning up my prompt
which contained that character everything worked well again. 

Now I'm still wondering, why there is a difference between using the
Shell-Icon to start it up, and using some other method.