Bill –
I don't know if you have seen the discussion in AmigaVendor with regard to the
following command structure: Run <>NIL: …
It has been suggested in a couple of third-party add-on programs or patches,
and will not work on my system (using WShell 2) and on some other people's
systems.
I HAD thought we isolated it to the OS (works with 3.1, doesn't with 3.0), but
it occurs to me that perhaps it is a peculiarity of the shell.
Werner Kazmierzak commented:
> well, this form of redirection is not mentionned in the official Amiga
> documentations, you should use … Run <NIL: >NIL: … instead.
>
> But in 'The Amiga Guru Book', pg 298, Ralph Babel discribes the <> as
> standard input _and_ output redirection (useful for CON; 2.0 and later
> AmigaShells). He additionally notes, that, as the FileHandle of the
> redirection file needs to be cloned with <>, the stream thus specified
> must be interactive.
Do you have any thoughts or advice on this? The work-around is trivial:
Run <NIL: >NIL: …
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