jack@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com (Jack Gidding) (06/18/91)
Hello net world, I am having a problem with the file manager program provided by Sun. Under the File menu there is a place where you can enter your own commands. I have been trying to get the command "compress %FILE" to work, but filemgr doesn't seem to know what %FILE is. In the man pages for filemgr, it says to use %FILE to indicate the selected file. Am I doing something drastically wrong or are the man pages incorrect? advTHANKSance, _____________________________________________________________________ $ Jack A. Gidding $ "Sadly for the egos of $ $ Development Engineer $ engineers, much of what $ $ $ we hold dear does not $ $ Reuters Trading Room Systems $ have critical market $ $ 1400 Kensington Road $ impact, because it's $ $ Oak Brook, IL 60521 $ drowned out by factors $ $ $ that are more important $ $ Voice: (708) 574-7424 x2770 $ to customers." $ $ Email: jack@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com $ -Dan Weinreb $ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
euamol@eua.ericsson.se (Mats Larsson) (06/18/91)
jack@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com (Jack Gidding) writes: >I am having a problem with the file manager program provided by Sun. Under the >File menu there is a place where you can enter your own commands. I have been >trying to get the command "compress %FILE" to work, but filemgr doesn't seem >to know what %FILE is. In the man pages for filemgr, it says to use %FILE to >indicate the selected file. >Am I doing something drastically wrong or are the man pages incorrect? It sure isn't you. Probably a typo error. It should be $FILE as it say in the printed stuff (DeskSet Environment Reference Guide). -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Mats Larsson | Email: Mats.Larsson@eua.ericsson.se Ellemtel Telecom Labs | Phone: +46 8 727 3658 Box 1505 | Fax: +46 8 47 82 76 S-125 25 Alvsjo | Telex: +54 812452 EUA S SWEDEN -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Mats Larsson | Email: Mats.Larsson@eua.ericsson.se Ellemtel Telecom Labs | Phone: +46 8 727 3658 Box 1505 | Fax: +46 8 47 82 76
marc@sequoia.cray.com (Marc Bouron) (06/18/91)
In article <1960@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com>, jack@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com (Jack Gidding) writes: > Hello net world, > > I am having a problem with the file manager program provided by Sun. Under the > File menu there is a place where you can enter your own commands. I have been > trying to get the command "compress %FILE" to work, but filemgr doesn't seem > to know what %FILE is. In the man pages for filemgr, it says to use %FILE to > indicate the selected file. > > Am I doing something drastically wrong or are the man pages incorrect? > > advTHANKSance, > > $ Jack A. Gidding Try $FILE instead of %FILE. I've not read the documentation for this, but if you say it shows `%FILE', then it's wrong. BTW, the contents of `$FILE' has a space appended to it -- this caused me problems when I wanted to append an extension to a filename :-) . [M][a][r][c] ################################################################################ # # marc@sequoia.cray.com # . . # # Marc CR Bouron # M.Bouron@cray.co.uk (ARPA) # _|\ /|_ # # Cray Research (UK) Ltd. # M.Bouron@crayuk.uucp (DOMAIN) # (_|_V_|_) # # +44 344 485971 x2208 # M.Bouron@uk.co.cray (JANET) # | | # # # ...!ukc!crayuk!M.Bouron (UUCP) # # ################################################################################
paulo@ohmeda.com (Paul Ourada) (06/19/91)
jack@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com (Jack Gidding) writes: >Hello net world, >I am having a problem with the file manager program provided by Sun. Under the >File menu there is a place where you can enter your own commands. I have been >trying to get the command "compress %FILE" to work, but filemgr doesn't seem >to know what %FILE is. In the man pages for filemgr, it says to use %FILE to >indicate the selected file. >Am I doing something drastically wrong or are the man pages incorrect? ^ are At least, I use $FILE with no probs! :-) Paul E. Ourada Software Engineer Ohmeda Monitoring Systems paulo@ohmeda.com