Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!texbell!sugar!uunet!mcvax!ukc!cs.tcd.ie!csvax1!ecarroll From: ecarroll@cs.tcd.ie (Eddy Carroll) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Execute bug with :T and T: Message-ID: <18672@cs.tcd.ie> Date: 10 Oct 88 20:27:55 GMT References: <9840@cup.portal.com> Organization: Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin Lines: 19 In article <9840@cup.portal.com>, dan-hankins@cup.portal.com writes: > After patching Execute, the script would still ask for the system disk > to be un-write-protected. However, if I hit the Cancel button, the > system instead of bombing out of the script would continue from that > point and work fine. > > So now my problem is how to patch Execute so it doesn't try to get a write > lock on the ":" disk. > > Dan Hankins Maybe I'm missing something subtle here, but why not just do a CD RAM: before you Execute the sub-batch file? I just tried it, and it seems to work fine. And it'll create your ram disk for you quicker than DIR >NIL: RAM: will as well :-) -- Eddy Carroll ----* Genuine MUD Wizard | "You haven't lived INTER: mcvax!ukc!cs.tcd.ie!csvax1!ecarroll@uunet.uu.net | until you've died UUCP: {...uunet}!mcvax!ukc!cs.tcd.ie!csvax1!ecarroll | in MUD!" - R.B.