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From: kenh@techbook.com (Ken Haynes)
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Subject: Re: Can't get IF..THEN..ELSE to work in login script
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Date: 25 Jan 91 18:36:41 GMT
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In article <28114.279d8fb3@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> mcginnis@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>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?

Try using the BEGIN construct with your IF constructs.

IF <condition> THEN BEGIN
statement
statement
END

The BEGIN must appear on the same line as the IF and the THEN.

Ken

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