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 Message 643 
 Rj Clay to Roy Witt 
 Error attempting to run 'between' script 
 15 Sep 15 15:10:28 
 
Roy,

13 Oct 12 21:05, you wrote to me:
 RW>  Rj Clay wrote to All:

 RC>>    Something I've been seeing that I'm trying to figure out:

 RC>> ---------------------------------------
 RC>> % 11:16:58  System: between
 RC>> % 11:16:58  execvp returned -1, errno is 2.
 RC>> ? 11:16:58  Error executing program.
 RC>> --------------------------------------

 RC>>    IIRC, the error being returned is 'No such fail or directory'.

 RW> Is the 'script' a reference to the 'batch' file used in the DOS or Win
 RW> version, as in between.bat?

    A 'script', as in; "a small program written for a command interpreter...". 
 And yes, on DOS or Windows systems, they've been commonly referred to as 
'batch' files.


 RW>  Is Linux looking for a file with a .SCR extension? Are *.SCR files
 RW> executable in Linux?

   On linux/unix systems, there is no requirement for using an extension on a 
file name (like '.bat' or '.cmd') in order to identify a file as a batch or 
script file, although it's not unusual to use one for other reasons.  (The 
command line shell checks the first line in the file for the sequence "#!" at 
the beginning of the line; if present, then what follows on that line is the 
path & name to the program to be used to process the rest of the file.)

   So to me, the line "System: between" noted above indicates that IRex is 
attempting to run the batch/script file named "between", which the error says 
it can't access and/or find. That file is in the base directory where Internet 
Rex is installed, where the Irex executables are installed, including 'rexl'.  
It is set as an excutable.








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