At 15:40 -0700 5/21/02, Larry Barnes wrote:
>OKAY, you pegged my interest here.  I ran a test and I was able to run quad
>inside a While statement.  The trick is you have to prime the quad input
>command before entering the while statement.
...
...
>         run quad.util.lps < qdcmd


This is precicely what Stan and I (and perhaps others) have been saying. In
order to run programs inside WHILE loops, you have to redirect the STDIN of
the program. And that's exactly what you're doing here. But you certainly
make it appear to be different by doing all that complicated message file
stuff. In any case, what you *CAN'T* do (and this is explained in detail by
my prior posting) is something like:

   !while true
   !  run quad.util.lps
      some
      collection
      of
      valid
      quad
      commands
      exit
   !
   !# more MPE stuff
   !endwhile
   !eoj


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