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Old 04-22-2001
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I'm a dummie about UNIX scripts and I'm delighted for the answers I have found here. Thank's to all. Maybe in a far galaxy in other time I could give an answer or idea too Smilie.
OK... I'm trying to invoque the program named lbrd_dochar from a script but it gives the mssg. "command not found" when the script is ran.
I suposse I must set an environmental variable or add a parameter to the script but I really don't know.
Do not hesitate to help me please.
JL
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Old 04-22-2001
#!/bin/sh

. path_to_another_script_name


if you are using c shell:
#!/bin/csh

source path_to_another_script_name


HTH
 
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