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Re: Wildcards in Obey files

From "Richard Torrens (News)" <News+15278@Torrens.org.uk>
Subject Re: Wildcards in Obey files
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Date 2011-10-31 16:14 +0000
Message-ID <522ae01abcnews*@Torrens.org.uk> (permalink)
References <5227152c09news*@Torrens.org.uk> <mpro.ltkfzt001yyid02gk@wingsandbeaks.org.uk.invalid>
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In article <mpro.ltkfzt001yyid02gk@wingsandbeaks.org.uk.invalid>,
   Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk>
wrote:
> Richard Torrens (News) <News+15271@Torrens.org.uk> wrote:

> > The line
> > 
> > Copy "logs-<Transient$TodayLeaf>"
> > "<Transient$TodayDir>.Logs-<Transient$TodayLeaf>" R D
> > 
> > always gives an error "Unknown operand" yet the same line dragged into
> > a task window works.
> > 
> > So is there a way of deleting a wildcarded directory from an obey file?

> As there's no wildcard in the line above, why are you talking about it?

> You might replace

>   Copy ....

> with 

>   Do Copy ....

> The 'do' resolves the system symbols so that the line passed to Copy has
> no symbols in it; this sometimes fixes this sort of problem.

No - that doesn't do the trick!

Sory for the wrong Subject: !

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Wildcards in Obey files "Richard Torrens (News)" <News+15271@Torrens.org.uk> - 2011-10-24 08:29 +0100
  Re: Wildcards in Obey files Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2011-10-24 11:33 +0100
    Re: Wildcards in Obey files "Richard Torrens (News)" <News+15278@Torrens.org.uk> - 2011-10-31 16:14 +0000
  Re: Wildcards in Obey files Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-25 07:20 +0200
    Re: Wildcards in Obey files "Richard Torrens (News)" <News+15278@Torrens.org.uk> - 2011-10-31 16:17 +0000
      Re: Wildcards in Obey files Ian Hamilton <Ian.Hamilton@AAUG.net> - 2011-10-31 09:00 +0000
      Re: Wildcards in Obey files Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-10-31 15:04 +0100
      Re: Wildcards in Obey files Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-11-05 15:17 +1300
        Re: Wildcards in Obey files druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-11-05 16:06 +0000
          Re: Wildcards in Obey files Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-11-06 16:27 +1300
  Re: Wildcards in Obey files Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2011-11-01 23:32 +0000

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