[comp.sys.amiga] Help! Really messed up Error!

antunes@ASTRO.PSU.EDU (Alex Antunes) (02/14/90)

Help!  Serious help!  I had a problem, a solution was offered:

>      "No K directive" messages appear when you use the symbol '>' or
>  '<' for input/output redirection in a script file.
>  This ambiguity causes your problem.  To solve this, redefine the brackets
>  using the BRA and KET commands (see your AmigaDOS manual):
>   .BRA {
>  | Dan Barrett     -      Systems Administrator, Computer Science Department

Unfortunatly, this isn't it.  The original problem remains:  my amiga locked
up, I killed the power, then tried to reboot.  My startup-sequence on disk
does binddrivers, then mounts hard drive partition dh1:  (I don't have the
1.3 ROM), then has the line
   execute dh1:s/startup-sequence
which completes my startup.  It always worked perfectly before.  Now, after
the lockup/crash, it fails.   It tells me
   Execute    no K directive
   execute failed return code 20
and refuses to execute the file and dumps me to the cli.  When I then 
manually type "execute dh1:s/startup-sequence" it continues perfectly!
There are NO '<' or '>' involved!  And why would it not do it in the startup
now, after the crash, when it worked perfectly before?   And why can I then
immediatly type it in manually and have it work?  And why does it, after I
do type it in manually, repeat the error with another execute line in 
dh1:s/startup-sequence UNLESS I've run GOMF3.0 before it, in which case it
executes perfectly fine?  I need a permanent fix, did I really blow out a
memory location or something?  Help help help!!!

ANYONE that can tell me how to get it to do that first execute, please!
This was a tried-and-true startup-sequence that now inexplicably no longer
works!  And it has not '>' or '<''s!!!!!   *sob*  *cry*
                                        sandy
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Sandy Antunes   "the Waupelani Kid" 'cause that's where I live...
antunes@astro.psu.edu                 Penn State Astronomy Dept
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