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                  <P>System commands are executable from within DBINSTAL by preceding 
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                  <p><img src="../../images/blank.gif" width="10" height="10"><font color="#0033CC"><strong>!</strong></font> 
                    <img src="../../images/blank.gif" width="10" height="10">(exclamation 
                    point) executes the command as typed</p>
                  <p><img src="../../images/blank.gif" width="10" height="10"><strong><font color="#0033CC">:</font></strong> 
                    <img src="../../images/blank.gif" width="10" height="10">(colon) 
                    upshifts the command before executing</p>
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                    <img src="../../images/blank.gif" width="10" height="10">(dollar 
                    sign) upshifts the command before executing</p>
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                    | : | $} command_string</p>
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                    <li><font color="#000000">Entering <span class="ex">!ls </span>at 
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                      would upshift the command before passing it to the shell.</font></li>
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                  <P class="ex">sun3&gt; [/users/test]$ dbinstal orders.env</P>
                  <P class="ex">OMNIDEX DBInstal, Release 3.7.0 Fri Nov 30 2001 
                    13:04:52<br>
                    (c) Copyright 1981-1998 Dynamic Information Systems Corporation</P>
                  <P class="ex">Cmd: !ls<br>
                    orders.env orders.in orders.src</P>
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                    sh: LS: not found</P>
                  <P class="ex">Cmd: $ls<br>
                    sh: LS: not found<br>
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