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From: alh@hprmokg.HP.COM (Al Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C:Execute
Message-ID: <13240016@hprmokg.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 89 17:35:53 GMT
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/ papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) / 10:18 pm  Apr  9, 1989 /
>It is even better than that. Set the "script" bit with PROTECT fname +s and
>then you don't even have to invoke execute. (I am not sure whether this is
>documented anywhere, but it works!). Just type the name.

One problem with this.  When you edit a file (I was using 'vi' from Manx C)
and save it the 's' bit is removed.

What a pain! 

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