In article <1995Nov7.083549@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (Kent Covert) writes: > In article <1995Nov6.095120@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (R.E. Williams, Jr.) writes: >> I can access it diretly, just not through a link. What do I need to do to >> use this file? And just what do the privileges need to be set at? I have >> given the world read access.... > > I'm not sure. It works for me when I try the command: > > $ www http://www.muohio.edu/~williar2/mmac/tenarticles.html It works for me like that, too, just not when I try to access it from another page... very odd. > First, you don't want the define command. This would create a logical. > You want to create a symbol. I knew that... and I didn't use DEFINE in my login.com file. I have no idea why I wrote it like that in here... I guess because I had just said I was trying to "define a new command"... got me thinking about DEFINE. Now I feel like a dunce.... :-) > Secondly, redefining WWW is a little different from redefining other > commands. This is because WWW is not really a command, it's a symbol. You > can see this by issuing the command SHOW SYMBOL WWW. I discovered the trickery behind WWW when I issued the SET VERIFY and then tried WWW... interesting. > The problem comes in that the system does not dereference symbols > recursively - it only does it once! Therefore, when you issue the > 'command' WEB, the system dereferences this to: > www http://miavx1.acs.muohio.edu/~willar2/personal.html > The system then tries to execute this, but it doesn't go back through the > dereferencing process on the symbol www and therefore fails because there > is no command called WWW. That would explain it, and also explains why using a single quote solves my problem.... Thanks for your help, as always. -- Robert E. Williams, Jr. | [log in to unmask] Macintosh Developer | [log in to unmask] Enterprise Software | http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~williar2 _______________________________________________________________________________ "I think computer viruses should count as life... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image." --Dr. Stephen Hawking