Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mimsy!cvl!umd5!don From: don@umd5 (Chris Sylvain) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Mysterious error message: scenario please Message-ID: <1369@umd5> Date: Thu, 20-Nov-86 20:43:53 EST Article-I.D.: umd5.1369 Posted: Thu Nov 20 20:43:53 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Nov-86 23:49:26 EST Distribution: net Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 14 Keywords: system(), identifier Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:134 comp.unix.wizards:129 [] 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... -- --==---==---==-- .. And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? .. ARPA: don@umd5.UMD.EDU BITNET: don%umd5@umd2 UUCP: ..!seismo!umd5.umd.edu!don