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- From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Manx Make can't get path info from SkSh. Can any Make?
- Message-ID: <34553@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 19:48:07 GMT
- References: <2302@forty2.physik.unizh.ch> <paulk.0ud2@terapin.com>
- Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 18
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- paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) writes:
- >> SKsh 2.0 uses System() to execute external commands.
- >
- >jeez ... after they went and gave us RunCommand specifically for
- >executing programs the way a shell does.
-
- It is a little bit suprising. It does mean that sksh doesn't have
- to figure out how to handle paths, scripts, rexx, etc, etc. Certainly it
- would have to do so for AmigaShell scripts and rexx scripts anyways, but for
- normal executables RunCommand is fine (and that's what our shell uses).
-
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- "Rev on the redline, you're on your own; seems like a lifetime, but soon it's
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- Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
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- Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
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