[comp.sys.amiga.introduction] K Directive

doc@brewing.cts.com (Mitchell M. Evans) (01/21/91)

Howdy!

	This may be a subtlety of AmigaDos 1.3 or just plain ignorance on
my part, but what is a "K Directive"?  I am messing with shells that execute
other shells, and am getting this error.  When it occurs, it seems to 
eliminate the "Alias" commands for the shells, so I think I may have a 
problem with some of those.  Any help would be appreciated.

					Mitch
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hessu@clinet.fi (Tapio Heiskanen) (01/23/91)

doc@brewing.cts.com (Mitchell M. Evans) writes:


>Howdy!

>	This may be a subtlety of AmigaDos 1.3 or just plain ignorance on
>my part, but what is a "K Directive"?  I am messing with shells that execute
>other shells, and am getting this error.  When it occurs, it seems to 
>eliminate the "Alias" commands for the shells, so I think I may have a 
>problem with some of those.  Any help would be appreciated.

It seems to me that the problem solves with these two lines.

.bra (
.ket )


You could put anything for the brakets.

BTW: What is K Directive?


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johnhlee@hermod.cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee) (01/23/91)

In article <188ecf15.ARN0e6c@brewing.cts.com> doc@brewing.cts.com writes:
>	This may be a subtlety of AmigaDos 1.3 or just plain ignorance on
>my part, but what is a "K Directive"?  I am messing with shells that execute
>other shells, and am getting this error.  When it occurs, it seems to 
>eliminate the "Alias" commands for the shells, so I think I may have a 
>problem with some of those.  Any help would be appreciated.

If this is what I think it is, you may be trying to execute a script from
inside another script.  The second script in turn uses redirection with the
angle-brackets ">" and "<", and you have not redefined the script's default
.bra and .ket characters.  Try inserting:

.bra {
.ket }

at the very beginning of the second script.

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