I'm trying to get a simple AmigaDOS script to work on AROS, and have run into a problem which I can't solve. Here is basically what I am doing:



On AmigaOS4 this works as expected, but on AROS the "IF" command gets very confused by the fact that the AnnPathReply already contains quote marks, and so gives this error message:


If I have "Set echo on" enabled, then you can see why it gets confused:


Please do NOT suggest that I remove my quotes around $AnnPathReply, because when I cancel RequestFile the IF line would fail because it'd look like this:


Also note that RequestFile does NOT return an error code when cancelled (not on OS4 either), so I can't use "IF WARN".


I'm kinda shocked that using RequestFile in a script isn't possible on AROS. Hasn't anyone else run into this problem? Or is there some other solution I overlooked? As it currently stands I can't write a simple installer script that works on AROS :-(

Hi Chris


That's strange, as our documentation state that it does.
Not that i don't believe you, but are you sure ?

@magnorium
My mistake. RequestFile does indeed set WARN when cancelled. (I think) this solves my problem :)

Nice, such a dual question on multiple forums ;)

Good that it does, as that means the documentation is not lacking :)

If it doesn't solve the problem then please post script again :D.

I f believe it's something like:

Damn. No it doesn't, because now the script doesn't work on OS4 (and perhaps not MOS either - can't test at the moment).

I need to choose different (script) code for AROS vs not. Is there any easy way to identify whether a script is running on AROS or not?


If you want, I can just post on aros-exec ;)

Shall i post a different solution here ? ;) nah, use the ABI environment variable. afaik it is aros specific.


Uhm... please don't .. i will repeat my answers if there aren't coming any better ones @ ae :-)

BTW: should there be an OS environment variable. Even winblows has it. Oops, you could make such thing yourself in the startup-sequence or user-startup :hint:

As I said on the 'other' forum... Thanks for the ABI env suggestion: It works :)