🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1k004kINNqi3@gap.caltech.edu> scratchy.caltech.edu!nathan (Nathan Mates) writes:
> [Using ORCA/Shell 2.0, tried the following:]
> 
> Echo "  D - Desk.Accs"
> Echo "  T - Twilight"
> input selection
> if {selection}=="D"
>   prefix desk.accs
> else if {selection} == "T"
>   prefix Twilight
> endif
> 
> Written like this, it prints out the text, and then appears to wait for
> a line of text. I can enter stuff, but when I press return, the computer
> beeps at me. As this is the login file, open-apple-. won't work, and I
> have to reboot. I tried making it "input {selection}", but that generated
> an error on that line.

I don't know where the beep came from, or why you had to reboot.
Apple-period seems to abort an input without any problems.

The first problem in your script is the 'if': you must have a space on
either side of the == operator.

The second problem is the last line.  The command used to end an if is
'end', not 'endif'.

>    Can someone tell me what I've done wrong, and how to fix it, or if I
> should make my login file a EXE file (right now, it's the regular EXEC SRC
> file) and run it that way.

Nope, LOGIN must be an EXEC (SRC) file.  You can get LOGIN to invoke
an EXE file if you wish.
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David Empson

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