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From: m5d@bobkat.UUCP (Mike McNally )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Mysterious error message: scenario please
Message-ID: <246@bobkat.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Nov-86 18:42:09 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 21 18:42:09 1986
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Keywords: system(), identifier
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In article <1369@umd5> don@umd5 (Chris Sylvain) writes:
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>I'd like to know just what could possibly be causing the following error
>message in response to a call to system() with a string that if typed
>by hand to a shell works just fine -- "00: is not an identifier".
>I'm totally mystified, and invite wild speculation on the part of you
>net.people (or comp.people if you've been renamed already) on what the cause
>might be...
>
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Could be that the shell you type the command into is not the same shell
used by system().  If I recall, system() uses /bin/sh.  Perhaps if you
provided more details concerning the shell command someone could be
more helpful to you.  Sort of like telling your doctor, "when I execute
a certain body function, I see a large rabbit and hear Frank Sinatra
singing; what could be wrong?"

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