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From: lockhart@cbmvax.commodore.com (John W. Lockhart - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What's the deal with the A3000+documentation
Message-ID: <13132@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Jul 90 18:27:50 GMT
References: <36868@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: lockhart@cbmvax (John W. Lockhart - Product Assurance)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <36868@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>,
frazier@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Frazier) writes:

>l> date > foo
>works, but
>l> echo < foo
>
>does not.  No error msg, but nothing gets printed out.

True.  But try 
     date >env:foo
     echo "$foo"

>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.

To append foo to bar, use
       type >>bar foo
instead.

>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.

Try typing 'resident' at a shell prompt to see the list of
built-in Shell commands.  UNSETENV is there in place of 
'setenv remove'.

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


  -- John
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John Lockhart, lockhart@cbmvax.commodore.com; BIX: jlockhart
Systems Evaluation Group, Product Assurance Dept., Commodore
Working for, but not speaking for, Commodore.