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From: ugkamins@sunybcs.uucp (John Kaminski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The 1.4 wish you FORGOT!
Keywords: Wooden shoes & Tilted windmills ['We make no sense but like pizza']
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Date: 21 Apr 89 04:14:28 GMT
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In article <8645@polya.Stanford.EDU> jwl@Feanor.Stanford.EDU (John Lockhart) writes:
[ chuck execute and just type the script filename ]
>
>Um, it already works.  Or at least, my setup does.  When it's presented with
>the name of a file which has its script bit set, WShell executes the file.
>Oh yes, said script file should reside either in the current directory or 
>in S:.  I don't know that WShell even uses c:execute to do this; I 
>don't think so.

the standard amigashell uses c:execute ... found this out when making my
system convenient to use..... it didn't QUITE know how to find "co" (a
throwback to my Primos daze :^) which is simply execute renamed to co.

>
>C:Execute still has its uses, though...for all those scripts 
>without their bits set right :-)

That, and backward compatiblility.  It abolutely irritates me to use AmigaDOS
names, so renaming seemed to be the thing to do.  But at that time, noone
explained s:shell-startup nor alias to me, and I'm too lazy to change it
back.  Well, I also want to see the new (coincidentally UNIXified) command
names when I ls (I mean, um, dir) c:

As an aside, any of you ever used Primos?  Can any of you imagine writing a
BBS in CPL?  I did.  Really!  Can any of you imagine writing a BBS with Amiga
shell script commands?  CPL isn't quite that bad, because CPL has backward
branches, and as I understand it, the shell can only SKIP foreward.  Well,
I might mention that this CPL BBS had a mail system and a general message
base, and no transfer section (there was no need for it...this was just
a message disseminator for the Comp. Club).