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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP1.3 Assign queries
Message-ID: <911@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 14 Dec 89 11:19:46 GMT
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In <3030@usceast.UUCP>, yarnall@usceast.UUCP (Ken Yarnall) writes:
>I put the following lines in my startup-sequence:
>	Makedir ram:t ram:env ram:clips
>	Assign T: ram:t ENV: ram:env CLIPS: ram:clips
>
>Makedir creates all three directories (as it should), but Assign only performs
>the first assignment (T: is the only of the 3 logicals that is attached to 
>anything after the machine boots).
>
>The weird thing is, that if I perform the Assignment from the CLI after the
>machine has booted, Assign is more than happy to play with multiple arguments.

Sounds like you have the Amigados ASSIGN command in your path ahead of (or
instead of) your ARP ASSIGN _at the time you call it_. Later, your path
changes, and the ARP ASSIGN is invoked.

-larry

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