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From: Christopher Mosley <cmosley@voicenet.com>
Subject: Re: Small mystery
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:03:46 GMT
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Christopher Mosley <cmosley@voicenet.com> wrote:
> Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
>> LOOKUP macro, used internally by DIAL, refers to) as \m(_dialfile). But since
>> this is a DOS filename, typically "C:\KERMIT\DIALUPS.TXT", the fact that it
>> contains backslashes might (should not, but might) cause some confusion.
>> What happens, when a failure occurs, if you type "echo \m(_dialfile)"?
>> - Frank
> I get C:\KERMIT\DIALUPS.TXT
>
> I discovered the dialing error occurs after a non-valid command is
> entered (the error message: "?word "some_non_valid_word" not useable here".
> Then when I try to dial, dialups.txt is not found even though I am in
> c:\kermit.
> "cd" , "cd .", or moving to another dir and back to c:\kermit corrects
> the problem.
this error only occurs when the (non-ambiguous) abbreviated forms of dial
are used, that is d and di, there seems to be no problem
with dia and dial. I have grown so used to just using just "d"
I didn't bother using anything longer.
geesh, this is so odd and trivial