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From: drew@decwrl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Shell 2.06 Problems
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Date: Sat, 12-Sep-87 20:29:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 12 20:29:00 1987
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In reply to Dave Bakken:

> I have been using Steve Drew's shell 2.06 (with 1.2 gamma, Insider, and
> firing up Popcli II, facc, and a title bar clock at boot) and have been
> having problems:
> 
> 1)  Sometimes it doesn't execute a command (e.g. date [to set], cc, 
>     execute) but just returns with txt prompt.  Also, Popcli
>     won't fire up a CLI.

execute:
As stated in the docs for shell. AmigaDos execute script files will
not work with shell directly. You either have to do a Run execute file
from shell or use shell's more powerfull script language instead.

date:
If intending to set the system date and time then you'll need the 
amigados Date command not the shell internal 'date' command. I would
suggest either uppercasing such as 'Date' or 'c:date' to make sure you
get the external command.
 
> 2)  I copy a few things to RAM: (both a directory or ae top) and then
>     do a d or cd and get a guru (4.00c168b8 on the d command).

This is because you are running Gamma 1.2 rather than the official 
released version 1.2. It had a bug in the ram-handler with corrupting the 
date of the file when a 'setfiledate()' is used. Shell 2.06m also 
was'nt ready for bad dates and thus gurus. Shell 2.07M will not guru
in this situation.

Why not upgrade to 1.2, maybe all your problems will be gone :-).

Steve Drew.