Subj : ;EXECing *MODULES
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Mar 25 2002 11:08 pm

 Re: ;EXECing *MODULES
 By: Angus Mcleod to Digital Man on Mon Mar 25 2002 09:06 pm

> I was trying to ;EXEC a *MODULE that I'd just written.  The SBBS "CLI"
> forces all input UPPERcase, so if you write "module.src" and compile it to
> "module.bin", when you ;EXEC it, you get an error saying it can't file
> "MODULE.bin".
>
> I them symlink the two
>
>      ln -s module.bin MODULE.bin
>
> which gets around the error, but perhaps a more dainty solution can be
> devised?

It's the default shell that's doing the uppercase conversion. Either modify the
shell, or just type ";EXEC<CR>" - it'll then prompt for the system password,
then the command-line (which allows anycase).

                                                   digital man

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