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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: System call in 2.0
Message-ID: <20255@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 08:15:17 GMT
References: <1991Apr2.051333.28230@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Apr2.051333.28230@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams) writes:
>I've been having some minor problems with the System() call (dos.lib) in
>AmigaDOS 2.0.  It works fine when I specify input/output streams that
>are taken from the DOS Input() && Output() calls.
>But when I open a filehandle to the current window

>file = Open("*",MODE_OLDFILE)
>
>and pass file to System() to specify input/output, then none of the programs
>in the c: directory (eg. dir, list, copy) function correctly.

>	System("copy",tagarray);
>
>brings the system down in a big way.

	You need two _different_ filehandles for System().  Open "*" twice,
once as OLDFILE, once as NEWFILE.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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