--- Paul Christidis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The command file being executed out of the UDC 'inherits' the 'stdin'
> of the UDC (tempfile in your example).
>
> One way to still have the 'invoked' command files remain
> 'interactive' is
> to explicitly redirect their input to $stdin.  See below:
>
>         ...
>         file x=$stdin
>         INPUT _r5;prompt="Enter YES or NO: "   < *x
>         ...

or to borrow a line from jeff vance's private volume udc's:

          file pgtermin;dev=!hpldevin;acc=in

just a comment about the shutdown udc...

part of why i wrote the udc was to give my operators a way to do a
unattended shutdown.  they type in 'shutdown'....confirm it with a
reply (paranoia is our friend)...and then they can walk away from the
console to babysit the unix boxes (:-).  i realize that everyone's
needs are different so you may not care about this.       - d

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Donna Garverick     Sr. System Programmer
dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com
925-210-6631        Longs Drug Stores

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Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are.
"Ulysses", A. Tennyson

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