Mysterious error message: scenario please

[Chris Sylvain]

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I'd like to know just what could possibly be causing the following error
message in response to a call to system() with a string that if typed
by hand to a shell works just fine -- "00: is not an identifier".
I'm totally mystified, and invite wild speculation on the part of you
net.people (or comp.people if you've been renamed already) on what the cause
might be...

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