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From: [e-mail] (Lee Kindness)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: .key
Date: 5 Feb 1996 08:50:28 GMT
Organization: The Robert Gordon University, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Aberdeen, Scotland
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Anthony Brice ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Hey look, on 23 Jan 96 Gary was heard mumbling to All:

:  GED> I have a game that is started by executing a script via iconx. What
:  GED> puzzles me is that the following command line is executed before the
:  GED> game is started:

:  GED> ..key dummy

:  GED> This puzzles me because there are no files on the disk named .key or
:  GED> dummy. Is anyone familiar with this command?

: I've seen similar scripts using commands like this. They're normally followed
: up with .bra lines. I think they're an Amigados way of passing arguments to the
: script based on what was called from Workbench, although don't quote me on that
: as I've never understood them myself fully. Equivalent to the Arexx Parse Arg
: perhaps?

The .bra command is followed by a normal READARGS style template as used
in the majority of programs, for example a script that simply deletes a
directory viz:

.key DIRECTORY/A
.bra {
.ket }

Delete {DIRECTORY} ALL

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