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Re: PLEASE help me with these commands...

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From: fairfield
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:47
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In article <1992Oct11.211155.1@vaxr.llnl.gov>, yurick@vaxr.llnl.gov writes:
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>   When I type RUN UUENCODE.EXE FILENAME, I get a message stating that I need to 
> supply fewer parameters.  When I simply type RUN UUENCODE.EXE, I get a message
> stating that I need to supply a filename!??!  ARRgggghhhhh!  What do I need to
> define before hand.  Oh, yeah...when I type RUN UUDECODE.EXE, I have to press
> CTRL-Y to get my prompt back.

    Define "foreign" commands to invoke the images, so:

	$ UUEN*CODE == "$SYS$LOGIN:UUENCODE"
	$ UUDE*CODE == "$SYS$LOGIN:UUDECODE"

Note the lead dollar-sign in the symbol definitions, above, is _required_.

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