vu0235@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (vu0235) (07/17/90)
This article is about a question I have on SKsh, Steve Koren's shell. Before I say what my question is, here is some information about my configuration: 1) I have version 1.3 of SKsh, 2) I start SKsh with 'newcli from cliksh window "con:0/0/640/400/Sksh_Window"'. cliksh is the file I use to set up Sksh and it is listed below: Prompt "%N.%S> " stack 16000 sksh Additionally, I use the .skshinit and .skshrc files provided with the program, with some additional aliases and additions to the path in .skshrc. Ok, here is my question: When I try to execute an AmigaDOS script, the script will not execute until I give Sksh the exit command, then since I have not set LOGOUT='endcli', control is returned to the CLI and then the script executes, i.e, what happens is that when I try to execute the script, all that happens is that I get back the Sksh prompt and I can just go on and do whatever I want, but when I exit, suddenly the script executes. I have tried two different scripts including one that just echoed a sentence. I have set the script bit and put the line ;!c:execute at the beginning of the script as specified by the documentation. Also, I have tried the source command and the execute command directly but the result is always the same. Any help that can be given is appreciated. Christopher H. Schuck -- Christopher H. Schuck // Dept. of Math. Sci., SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13901 \\ // vu0235@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu \X/
jdickson@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson) (07/17/90)
From the articles I have seen, it is evident that the MMU in the A3000 is being used in some capacity. Could someone please define that capacity? I read an article in Amiga World a couple months ago that de- scribed the machine, but beats the hell out of me why this topic was not discussed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff S. Dickson jdickson@zook.jpl.nasa.gov
koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren) (07/18/90)
> Ok, here is my question: When I try to execute an AmigaDOS script, the > script will not execute until I give Sksh the exit command, then since I > have not set LOGOUT='endcli', control is returned to the CLI and then the > script executes, i.e, what happens is that when I try to execute the script, The best I can do at the moment is to offer this, which I've taken from the yet-unreleased addendum to version 1.5: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Word about Command Invocation under SKsh SKsh does not actually invoke external commands itself. In- stead, it builds a command line with all passed parameters and passes this command line to ARP. However, there are differing requirements for various types of AmigaDos programs (such as BCPL versus Lattice C). Occasionally ARP will fail to invoke a particular program correctly. It does quite a good job con- sidering the situation, but sometimes it will fail. I unfor- tunately cannot do anything about this in SKsh, so if there are few programs you cannot invoke correctly, you will have to invoke them from the AmigaDos shell. Fortunately, however, AmigaDos 2.0 will provide a standard method of program invocation. When I can compile SKsh to use that feature, the problem will be eliminated. (That will, however, mean that SKsh will run only under AmigaDos 2.0) Un- til then, there is nothing I can do to help. Sorry! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I realize that's not much help right now, but there's not much I can do. I tried around 4 different methods of program invocation before settling on ARP as the best, but its not perfect. The good news is that Commodore has provided a "real" method to invoke programs under 2.0 (bravo!). - steve