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Re: Wildcards in Obey files

From Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject Re: Wildcards in Obey files
Date 2011-10-24 11:33 +0100
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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.


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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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