rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (09/04/88)
Can anyone explain why: The file asdf is: delete asdf If you type `execute asdf', it bitches; file in use. *But*, if The file testit is: execute asdf and asdf is as above, the delete works? Can I count on this to continue to work? Thanks! -tom
jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) (09/05/88)
In article <3823@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes: >Can anyone explain why: > >The file asdf is: >delete asdf > >If you type `execute asdf', it bitches; file in use. *But*, if > >The file testit is: >execute asdf > >and asdf is as above, the delete works? Can I count on this to >continue to work? Thanks! Whenever you execute a file from within an execute script, it doesn't actually run out of the file, but out of t:Command-xx-Tyy, where xx and yy are numbers. If possible, I would avoid counting on the exact interactions of this. It might work differently if someone replaces the resident CLI with a shell that handles Execute internally, for example. -- Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup