bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) (01/19/90)
I tried to start using SKsh (v1.3) today, but encountered the following
weirdness. It seems like a bug, but since it is so obvious it is more
likely something I'm doing wrong :-)
( note: I checked some more after writing the stuff below. This only
seems to after AmigaDOS commands?!?!?! ie. substituting lc
for list below works! )
Anyway, here's the problem:
- I start sksh, enter an external command such as 'list' which works fine.
- I enter another external command (such as 'list' again!) and this time
sksh waits for me to press a key before executing it (although it does
seach the path and find it first)
Something else with I think may be related:
- external commands don't seem to be receiving their parameters.
What gives?
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-- Date, verb: prearranged socializing with intent.stephen@hpdml93.HP.COM (Stephen Holmstead) (01/20/90)
Blair MacIntyre writes: >I tried to start using SKsh (v1.3) today, but encountered the following >weirdness. It seems like a bug, but since it is so obvious it is more >likely something I'm doing wrong :-) >[stuff deleted] >Anyway, here's the problem: >- I start sksh, enter an external command such as 'list' which works fine. >- I enter another external command (such as 'list' again!) and this time > sksh waits for me to press a key before executing it (although it does > seach the path and find it first) I have also noticed this on many external commands. They require an extra RETURN. >Something else with I think may be related: >- external commands don't seem to be receiving their parameters. Yup. I try to do a 'mount b:' and it gives me the standard response as if I didn't give it any parameters. ____ ____ | / /_ __\ | Disk 0S/2 == 1/2 OS (Leo Schwab) Stephen Holmstead | | / / /_/ | | Mechanism // ...!hplabs!hpdmlge!stephen |___\ / /___| Division \X/ Amiga stephen@hpdmlge.boi.hp.com
koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren) (01/21/90)
> ( note: I checked some more after writing the stuff below. This only > seems to after AmigaDOS commands?!?!?! ie. substituting lc > for list below works! ) > > - I enter another external command (such as 'list' again!) and this time > sksh waits for me to press a key before executing it (although it does > seach the path and find it first) > > Something else with I think may be related: > - external commands don't seem to be receiving their parameters. SKsh uses ARP to execute external commands. There are at least 3 types of external binary commands, all of which require different things upon invokation (for example, the BCPL AmigaDos commands are different from commands compiled with Lattice C). The ARP.library occasionally has problems dealing with the amigados commands (this is not Arp's fault, really). As for the second problem (with external commands not getting parameters), which version of arp are you using? Try the latest one; my arp.library is 17100 bytes long. I don't have that problem at all. I wish there was a "standard" way to execute programs, but there is not (yet). I hate to depend on arp.library, since old versions will exhibit problems, etc. Unfortunately, there is no choice. - stevee