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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: ICONX and ASK question
Message-ID: <22181@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 18:41:06 GMT
References: <21126.284b80e7@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
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In article <21126.284b80e7@oregon.uoregon.edu> gpotts@oregon.uoregon.edu writes:
>
>I have a AmigaDOS script file that looks something like this:
>
>ASK "Wanna do it?"
>IF WARN
>DoIt
>DoItSomeMore
>ENDIF
>ASK "Did you like it?"
>DoItAgain
>
>If I run this from a shell, all is well. If, however, I use ICONX, when I
>doubleclick on the script's icon that I created, ICONX opens a window, the
>lines:
>
>Wanna do it? Wanna do it?
>
>appear in the window and then, regardless of what I do, the window closes
>after a second or two.


It sounds like you are invoking the 1.3 IconX program, rather than the
2.0.  Use the version command on it to check this.

The 1.3 IconX command would only open input for the script if
it began with a . command, ie

.key place
.bra [
.ket ]
ASK "Wanna do it?"
IF WARN
DoIt
DoItSomeMore
ENDIF
ASK "Did you like it?"
DoItAgain


The 2.0 IconX always opens input.


		andy
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