[Coco] MShell The Ultimate OS9 File Manager

[Nick Marentes]

On 17/11/2014 7:43 AM, Robert Gault wrote:

> dsave without the " ! shell -p " will generate a script but unless you 
> save the script with a " >mshell_install " nothing will happen. The " 
> ! shell " tells OS-9 to Pipi the script through shell when the 
> commands actually happen. The " -p " means turn off paging on the 
> screen (in case it was on) so that the process will not stop when you 
> reach the end of the screen and wait for a key press to continue.
>
>
Aha! That's it then!

I assumed the command executed, not just create the script.

>
> So your main problem was not piping dsave to a shell. You ought to see 
> something about that with a
> help dsave
>

It says it, but doesn't explain it  in "newbie" sense. The manual 
probably would have explained it.

My fault, I just assumed it was "intuative".

Nick