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From: Elmer Beachley
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 1990 23:39

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AmigaDOS's Execute routine (libraries/dosextens.h) seems to setup a new
CLI to invoke it's argument, and not a new SHELL.  I say this because aliases
defined in the Shell are unknown when passed to execute.  Is it possible to
use execute to invoke a SHELL instead of a CLI?

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From: etb@pitt.UUCP (Elmer Beachley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Execute help
Keywords: NewCLI, NewShell
Message-ID: <8076@pitt.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 90 23:39:18 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Pittsburgh
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