RE: Command-line arguments with Root 2.21/08 under NT

From: lijowski@cosray2.wustl.edu
Date: Wed Mar 31 1999 - 20:47:57 MEST


  I have tried

  > root h.C and 

  > root

  root [1].x h.C

 with root 2.21/08 on SunOS 5.5 and root version compiled under 
 SunOS 5.4 and it works fine.

  Michal Lijowski

> From: "Valery Fine (Faine)" <fine@bnl.gov>
> To: "Jonathan M. Gilligan" <jonathan.gilligan@vanderbilt.edu>,
>         "Root Talk" <roottalk@hpsalo.cern.ch>
> Subject: RE: Command-line arguments with Root 2.21/08 under NT
> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 13:30:40 -0500
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> >   Hello, Jonathan
> > 
> > > I just downloaded and installed Root 2.21/08 on my WIndows NT box. Root now
> > > does not seem to process files specified on the command line. If I have a
> > > file called Hello.C that consists of a single line "{ printf("Hello,
> > > world!\n"); }" and I run root from the command line "root hello.C" nothing
> > > happens. If I type ".x hello.C" from inside root, it prints "Hello, world!"
> > > as expected.
> > > 
> > > Do others experience this problem or is it unique to my computer?
> > 
> >   I was enable to reproduce your problem:
> 
>   Excuse me I missed your point and gave wrong reply.
>   Yes I found the command does supply a wrong ERROR message 
>   (by some reason you didn't point this out).
>   So I found
>   for macro
> 
>   h.C:
>   { printf(" Hello, Wordl!!!\n");}
> 
>  root 2.21/08 gives:
> 
> root [2] .x h.C
> Error: No symbol h() in current scope  FILE: LINE:0
> *** Interpreter error recovered ***
> NULL
> 
>   I believe there is no Windows specific here and this bug should be present
> for any UNIX machine as well.
>   Since I have no 2.21.08 on my UNIX I would loike people on list try this
> to confirm.
>   With my best regards,
>                                   Valery
> 
> 



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