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From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: "No K directive" in 1.3's Execute
Message-ID: <1180@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 89 17:24:45 GMT
References: <1989Jan6.183818.19500@ziebmef.uucp> <10291@well.UUCP> <2497@antique.UUCP> <5661@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Organization: Dept of Math, Ohio St U at Newark, Newark, OH 43055
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In article <2497@antique.UUCP> vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier) writes:
>It sounds like Execute is interpreting a pair of IO redirection
>commands as a single keyword substitution command, as in
>    Run <nil:> nil: whatever

In article <5661@cbmvax.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes:
>Nope; what I stated was that the decision to *leave it the way it was*
>was deliberate. 

How come nobody has mentioned .BRA and .KET yet? It should be standard
practice to use them if your script does redirection.

[BTW, .BRA and .KET reassign the < and > characters when used to enclose
variables. The name is obviously taken from physicists' parlance. I wonder
whether it influenced the seclection of characters: <x| is ``bra'' and
|y> is ``ket'' with this terminology.]

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