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   fadden to justliketom...@gmail.com   
   Re: ORCA/M, Macgen problems   
   18 Oct 22 07:52:45   
   
   From: thefadden@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, October 17, 2022 at 2:06:18 PM UTC-7, justliketom...@gmail.com   
   wrote:   
   > “macgen hello.asm hello.macros 13:orcainclude:m=“ but prompts for a   
   filename. Entering “13:orcainclude:m=“ results in “:HD6:OR   
   A.2.0.4:LIBRARIES:orcainclude:m= could not be opened”.   
      
   Sounds like the wildcard routine can't find anything, so the program acts like   
   you didn't actually give it the final argument, and queries for a name.    
   Curious that it would work if specified on stdin but not the command line.   
      
   IIRC, APW/Orca are different from something like UNIX, where the shell   
   processes the wildcards and hands a full list of arguments to the program.    
   APW/Orca hand the wildcard to the program and let it iterate through the   
   possibilities itself.  So if    
   something changed in the way wildcards are processed, that could cause things   
   to fail, but you'd expect it to cause most things to fail the same way.   
      
   If you "cat 13:orcainclude:m=", do you get a list of macro files from that   
   directory?   
      
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