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From: rouaix@inria.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Replacement ECHO / CLI feature
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Date: Tue, 19-May-87 10:29:11 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 10:29:11 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 21-May-87 04:17:35 EDT
Organization: INRIA, Rocquencourt. France
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1) There is in AmigaDos Manual the description for some "quoting" feature
in CLI command parsing (could be p 1-3).
To introduce a " (double-quote) in a filename, you shall use * (star) as 
a quoting character (somewhat like back-slash under Unix).
Consequently, you must use * to quote itself.

2) Echo command: it is not specified whether the argument is to be considered
as a string or not.
Practice shows that the argument for Echo is parsed as a filename (shall
we say it is a bug ? :-) ), so that  << echo "*" >> won't work.

I make this remark for two reasons:
	1) there has been some weeks ago a posting containing some 
alternative for AmigaDOS commands, one of them being echo.
this version DOES NOT RESPECT the "/* feature.
	2) i'm writing currently a new kind (i think) of execute scripts
using EDIT (no kidding !) and i use Echo to create command files for EDIT.
Some of these scripts will be posted here, and i want to prepare you to
the fact that these scripts will not work when using the "short echo".
As a matter of fact, the CD command in the same posting may also fail
when used in execute scripts, where the original one would work.

Last minute add: there is now another ECHO replacement, and I suspect it
not to follow the "/* feature .