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From: ssd@sugar.uu.net (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: ARexx path question
Keywords: ARexx, C:, path
Message-ID: <3015@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 25 Nov 88 09:35:36 GMT
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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I know there has been some recent discussion of ARexx and the current
path and directory assignments, but I think I must have missed something.
Apparently DOS commands run from an ARexx script inherit the "default"
settings for both the path and the current directory - but the work-
around I thought should have worked doesn't seem to.  Rather than, say
'delete ram:temp' with ram:c at the head of the path string, I used
'ram:c/delete ram:temp', etc.  I still get the blasted requestor to re-
insert the workbench disk I bted from.  It seems to all come down to 
the C: pseudo-device; if I assign C: to RAM:C, evething works as I 
would have expected.  If I assign C: to RAM:, the script runs but does
not invoke any of the commands in it, even though they all contain
explicit paths (I.E. SYS1:bin/cc ...)  Anyone know whaC: is being
accessed for here ???  Will I be horribly embarassed when I wake up in
the morning and discover I missed something obvious in my turkey-induced
stupor ????  
  
       Scott Denham