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From: dcl@ncsc1.ATT.COM (Dave Love)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000 & A-TALK questions
Message-ID: <719@ncsc1.ATT.COM>
Date: 29 Dec 90 03:39:39 GMT
References: <2435@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: AT&T National Customer Support Center
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In article <2435@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>In <4601@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, masaru@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Masaru Sugai) writes:
>>
>>	- exact documentation (i.e. setenv functionalities)
>
>The A3000 docs are quite good. What is it you don't understand about their
>explanation of SetEnv?

If his docs are the same as mine, they still list the LOCAL environment
variables under the SetEnv command, when they are actually set using the
Set/UnSet commands.  SetEnv just sets the GLOBAL environment variables.

Likewise, the MakeLink docs are incorrect and several commands (i.e. CPU,
iprefs) aren't documented at all.  Several shell enhancements aren't
mentioned either (backtick commands, automatic CDs, no restriction on 
the placement of the redirection symbol '>' on the command line, etc.).

So, while the A3000 docs are very good, they are aimed at a moving target 
(WB 2.0), so can be a little confusing (or just plain wrong) at times. 

>-larry

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