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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ATalk III--Questions
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Date: 18 Feb 90 19:04:14 GMT
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In article <02790.AA02790@wfhami.UUCP> bill@wfhami.UUCP (Bill Hogsett) writes:
>    My question is whether there is a way from an AREXX macro started from
>a shell--as opposed to from within Atalk--to direct Atalk to send (upload)
>a file by passing in a variable which contains the filename. 

The question has nothing to do with stating from the A-Talk Arexx menu or
from a shell. Use RX if you're using the CLI or the name of the .rexx
macro if you are using WShell. 

> Right now I
>am doing something like this:
>
>do j = 1 to i
>
>address ATK
>'wait "command"'
>'reply "U" file.j "^M"'

I doubt this will be properly translated with just a double quote at 
beginning and end.  To use quotes properly, you should use this technique:

MyString = '"'||"Hello^M"||'"'
'REPLY' MyString

[This is not really an A-Talk question but an Arexx question. Contact Bill
Hawes and not me for such questions in the future. Thanks]

>'send' file.j

what is file.j?  A variable? or a string?  If it is a variable it is not 
initalized. If it is an actual filename then you should have had:

'send file.j'

if it is an initialized variable (NOT QUOTED), then your code is fine.

>'wait "?"'
>'reply comment.j "^M"

This is broken too. See above.

>address
>end

>file. contains a list of files and comment. contains a list of comments.
>
>    I also would very much like to be able to send multiple files by
>selecting them from the filerequestor.  (This has nothing to do with my
>AREXX question.)  Neither Atalk III or VLT allow more than one file to be
>selected at a time for uploading. 

You can select multiple files with A-Talk III using wildcards (*?).

-- Marco
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