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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C/AmigaDos Problem
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Date: 21 Apr 89 21:15:22 GMT
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In article <905@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> jshortle@jarthur.UUCP (John Shortle) writes:
>It works fine unless you end the command with a plus (+) character.  You
>must hit return twice, and the program doesn't recognize the plus character
>as part of the statement.  I wrote a short program to test this oddity.

It seems to be part of the CLI parsing mechanism.
For example, try
1> RUN WAIT 10 +
ECHO "HELLO"
 
You get the whole command line, and I think there is
a newline substituted for the plus.  The easiest
fix is to put a space after the plus when you
type the line.  The hardest fix is to patch
the CLI, burn new proms, install them,
and then fix all the third-party execute
scripts that use this feature :-).