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From: langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP copy command; also "script" capability
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Date: 17 Mar 88 00:49:33 GMT
References: <329@ardent.UUCP> <45772@sun.uucp>
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In article <45772@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
:In article <329@ardent.UUCP> rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck) writes:
:->My very favorite way of creating a short and sweet file for execute
:->script testing (or AREXX script testing) is:
:->
:->    copy * to ram:test
:->  [...ARP copy uses * for a wild card, so I keep both copy programs
:->   available, the ARP rcopy renamed to cp.]
:
:You can do this with the arp copy command using 
:	copy to ram:test
:as equivalent syntax. 

There is also the very convenient and quite tiny 'input' program which I
believe is included on the ARP 1.04 distribution.  The equivalent command would
be simply 'input ram:test'.

Be seeing you...
--Lang Zerner      langz@athena.mit.edu    ihnp4!mit-eddie!athena.mit.edu!langz
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