Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!rayssd!raybed2!lah
From: lah@raybed2.UUCP (LANCE HOLMES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Arp v1.3 Yab (yet another bug)
Keywords: script commands
Message-ID: <1302@raybed2.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 89 20:38:32 GMT
Organization: Raytheon Co., Bedford, Mass.
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I have found yet another possible bug with arp v1.3

In my startup-sequence file I use the skip <* >NIL: ? for input
control to determine how my system should startup

here is a brief fragment example:

echo " enter menu option"
skip <* >NIL: ?
;
;
....... block of program statements .........
;
lab x
do something else



the bug I'm getting is if  an "x" is entered it is never found.
I played around with the script and did get it to work but I had to
change the "l" in lab to upper case and make the line before the
label blank. I'm not familiar with how all the script type commands
work and I haven't experimented around enough with swapping arp 
commands with amiga dos to be able to pin point the culprit but
I suspect skip, lab, or execute.

When I changed it to the following it worked fine.

echo " enter menu option"
skip <* >NIL: ?
;
;
....... block of program statements .........
;

Lab x
do something else


Lance Holmes