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From: tws@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Thomas Sarver)
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Subject: Re: POPcli bug? (was Re: ConMan Question)
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Date: 2 Jul 88 09:03:24 GMT
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In article <2002@ihlpm.ATT.COM> jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) writes:
>In article <6558@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett) writes:
>
>While trying to setup a small ram disk with my most popular CLI
>commands I noticed that my PATH ADD command didn't work when I
>opened a new CLI with POPcli, but it was there (the new path)
>when I used CLI from workbench or newcli from cli. I haven't
>had much of a chance to play with this bug, but since we are
>on the subject of CLI and Conman bugs I thougt I would bring
>it up.
>
>Sure, I can get around it by having the POPcli command do a
>path add command, but what a kludge!!!
>
>> 

This is surely no bug.  It is a price we pay for having a newcli come from
nowhere.  When someone does a 1> NewCLI command, the newcli inherits most of
the attributes of its parent, including the path(s).

However, the PopCLI newCLI comes practically from nowhere (I personally don't
know) so it has nothing to inherit.  A good work-around (not kludge) is:

PopCLI 90 "Newcli CON:foox/fooy/foox/fooy FROM PopCLI-Startup"

This tells PopCLI what to execute when it is invoked (notwithstanding minor
syntax, check the docs) as well as setting the blank to 90 sec.

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