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Article #9694Re: Execute strangeness
From: Daniel S. Riley
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 1988 15:12
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 1988 15:12
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In article <3823@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes: >Can anyone explain why: > >The file asdf is: delete asdf > >If you type `execute asdf', it bitches; file in use. *But*, if >The file testit is: execute asdf >and asdf is as above, the delete works? Nested executes are handled (for reasons beyond my ken) by creating a temporary file, same as script files with .key's are. Once the temp file is created, the original file being executed is released, and can be deleted. If the file asdf contains .key junk delete asdf it works. >Can I count on this to continue to work? Thanks! dunno. Seems like it should work at lesat until someone rewrites execute... -dan riley (dsr@lns61.tn.cornell.edu, dsr@crnlns.bitnet) -wilson lab, cornell u.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!riley From: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Execute strangeness Message-ID: <6203@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 4 Sep 88 15:12:16 GMT References: <3823@polya.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 25