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HELP CSH_COMPILE R.Evans, August 1983 Tom Khabaza, April 1984 Updated A.Sloman Nov 1989 LIB CSH_COMPILE LIB SH_COMPILE csh_compile is a 'compiler' for csh commands, compatible with the other compilers in the system (compile, prolog_compile etc). Given a character repeater, it passes commands, delimited by <LF> to a child process running the c-shell (/bin/csh). All output is collected up and printed. The subprocess is created if necessary, but it is NOT killed when csh_compile exits. LIB SH_COMPILE is similar, but uses /bin/sh instead of /bin/csh See also: HELP * IMCSH, HELP * IMSH, HELP * VED_CSHFILE LIB * CSH_COMPILE LIB * SH_COMPILE LIB * VED_IMCSH LIB * VED_IMSH Bugs: i. Because of the reliance on prompts, this program cannot be used to invoke interactive programs that change the prompt string. It will also fail if the user's .cshrc file sets the prompt to be changeable. To get round this, the program overrides the user's prompt defininition in .cshrc and uses the prompt that is in the user-assignable variable: csh_fixed_prompt which defaults to global vars csh_fixed_prompt = 'imcsh% '; ii. In theory all commands are sent to the same shell; thus 'cd' commands should work properly - that is, change the directory of the shell, but not of the parent pop process. However, interrupting csh_compile kills the shell (to insure tidyness), so a new shell is created when the next command is read. This new shell will have the current directory of the parent pop process. In other words interrupts put you back where you started. --- C.unix/help/csh_compile --- Copyright University of Sussex 1990. All rights reserved. ----------