Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!virgin!zinn!mem From: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Gulam and MWC Message-ID: <306@zinn.MV.COM> Date: 30 Apr 88 17:27:37 GMT References: <4129@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <1719@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <187@obie.UUCP> Organization: Zinn Computer Co., Litchfield NH Lines: 33 Summary: No camefrom needed here In article <187@obie.UUCP>, Barnacle (wes@obie.UUCP) sez: < In article <1719@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, wolf@csclea.ncsu.edu (Thomas Wolf) writes: < % In article <4129@watcgl.waterloo.edu> mberkley@watnext.waterloo.edu (Mike Berkley) writes: < % [some deleted text] < % >One side effect of all this is that when I use the MWC cc, it thinks < % >that I'm compiling from the desktop, so I have to press return after < % >every cc command, a logical thing for it to do, but very annoying. < % < Try setting the environment variable 'camefrom=gulam'. This is a < variable used by the cc program and msh to tell where it came from < (obviously). If it doesn't find 'camefrom' in the environment, it < assumes 'camefrom=desktop'. If 'gulam' doesn't work, try 'msh'. How very strange. I have been running MWC with my own shell, from version 1 right up to the latest beta that I got of version 3, and I have neither had this problem, nor have I ever set (or was aware of) a "camefrom" variable. A scanning of the Lexicon entries for "msh" and "cc" yields no mention of this variable, or of any other thing that might cause "cc" to decide whether to wait for a return after it is finished. I note that if even if I *do* set 'camefrom=desktop' (or CAMEFROM=DESKTOP, or CAMEFROM=desktop, or camefrom=DESKTOP'), "cc" *still* runs as it ought to from a shell, i.e. it does not wait for a return after it is done. Perhaps this "camefrom" thing is only one of the cues that it uses. There is also the special "_iovector" encoding (look up crts0 in the Lexicon). The _iovector value tells what devices the standard i/o streams are attached to. I wonder if Gulam sets this up properly? -mm- -- Mark E. Mallett PO Box 4188/ Manchester NH/ 03103 Bus. Phone: 603 645 5069 Home: 603 424 8129 uucp: mem@zinn.MV.COM (...decvax!elrond!zinn!mem or ...sii!zinn!mem) BIX: mmallett