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From: mcginnis@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Can't get IF..THEN..ELSE to work in login script
Message-ID: <28114.279d8fb3@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 91 19:29:23 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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We have not had any luck with getting IF ... THEN ... ELSE
statements to execute without error in login scripts.  We have 
tried upper and lower case for the commands.  The IF statements 
work fine.  The else statments always return an error.  Any 
line with an else statment fails to parse


We have been trying the example on page 298, appendix A of
Novell 386 Installation manual.

Here are some examples of what we have tried:

IF DAY_OF_WEEK="Wednesday" THEN WRITE "Wed" ELSE WRITE "Else statement"

IF DAY_OF_WEEK="Wednesday" THEN WRITE "Wed"
ELSE WRITE "ELSE STATMENT"

IF DAY_OF_WEEK="Wednesday" THEN 
WRITE "Wed" ELSE WRITE "ELSE STATMENT"

plus other combinations.

What are we doing wrong?