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From: martin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Martin Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What's the deal with the A3000+documentation
Message-ID: <13131@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Jul 90 17:45:27 GMT
References: <36868@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: martin@cbmvax (Martin Hunt)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <36868@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> frazier@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Frazier) writes:
>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.

Unfortunately, the manual is set in a proportional font so
you can't see the spaces. There should be no spaces between the
redirection operators and the filename.  For example,
date >foo

Echo <foo doesn't seem to work correctly

>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?

This appears to be a bug.  Try setenv foo "".


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Martin Hunt                     martin@cbmvax.commodore.com
Commodore-Amiga Engineering     {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!martin