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On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:49:57PM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote: > What's happened here is that MMK has successfully processed the > silent prefix but ignored the ignore prefix. It apparently takes > whichever one it comes to last when there is space between them. > MMS, on the other hand, has successfully processed the ignore prefix > but has treated the silent prefix as part of the command; it > apparently takes whichever one it comes to first. > > Furthermore, I can't see any way to make the ignore prefix work as a > macro. The decision about whether the success or failure of a > command will be taken into account apparently happens before macro > substitution in both MMK and MMS. This has been fixed. I've moved back to a literal - and am using "-$(NOECHO) command" which seems to make everybody happy. -- Michael G Schwern schwern@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ <mendel> ScHWeRnsChweRN sChWErN SchweRN SCHWErNSChwERnsCHwERN sChWErn ScHWeRn schweRn sCHWErN schWeRn scHWeRN SchWeRN scHWErn SchwErn scHWErn ScHweRN sChwern scHWerN scHWeRn scHWerN ScHwerN SChWeRN scHWeRn SchwERNschwERn SCHwern sCHWErN SCHWErN sChWeRnThread Previous | Thread Next