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From: frazier@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Frazier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: What's the deal with the A3000+documentation
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Date: 10 Jul 90 15:36:46 GMT
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Hello.  I have a few questions about our A3000 and it's
documentation.  First, this is our first Amiga, so we
are trying to get teh hang of this OS.  First, why don't
any of the examples in the documentation work?  For example,

l> date > foo
works, but
l> echo < foo

does not.  No error msg, but nothing gets printed out.
As for
l> copy foo >> bar
I get the error msg that bar has to be a directory.  How
can redirection be not working in this fashion?  I mean,
this isn't subtle, and those are all examples straight out
of the manual.

And how about setenv?  Supposedly, given an environment
variable (foo), I can remove it via
l> setenv foo remove
but what I end up with is having "remove" assigned to foo.
Is this somebody's idea of a joke?

Any comments on the above, or on the documentation/OS in
general, would be appreciated (particularly constructive
ones :-).
--
"They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true
freak cannot be made.  A true freak must be born."  K. Dunn, _Geek_Love_

Greg Frazier	frazier@CS.UCLA.EDU	!{ucbvax,rutgers}!ucla-cs!frazier