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From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: more 1.4 command wishlist
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Date: 10 Aug 89 06:36:20 GMT
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In-reply-to: johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM's message of 9 Aug 89 22:53:54 GMT


On 9 Aug 89 22:53:54 GMT,
johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall) said:

John> It would also cool to have invocation of Arexx scripts without
John> prepending 'rx', just like with 1.3 we can run scripts without
John> prepending 'execute' to the command line.  Perhaps the same
John> mechanism that WShell uses could be employed (or maybe a Rexx
John> protection bit --- UG- forget I said that!).

They really should do this.  No need for a separate bit.  Use the same
script bit, if the first two characters are "/*" then it's an ARexx
script.  Otherwise, assume it's an Execute script.  [Actually, pulling
"#!" from Unix scripts would be a good idea.]

Deven
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