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From: johnhlee@hermod.cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: K Directive
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Date: 22 Jan 91 20:47:42 GMT
References: <188ecf15.ARN0e6c@brewing.cts.com>
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In article <188ecf15.ARN0e6c@brewing.cts.com> doc@brewing.cts.com writes:
>	This may be a subtlety of AmigaDos 1.3 or just plain ignorance on
>my part, but what is a "K Directive"?  I am messing with shells that execute
>other shells, and am getting this error.  When it occurs, it seems to 
>eliminate the "Alias" commands for the shells, so I think I may have a 
>problem with some of those.  Any help would be appreciated.

If this is what I think it is, you may be trying to execute a script from
inside another script.  The second script in turn uses redirection with the
angle-brackets ">" and "<", and you have not redefined the script's default
.bra and .ket characters.  Try inserting:

.bra {
.ket }

at the very beginning of the second script.

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