User Guide

Novell Client for Windows

103-000159-001

December 7, 2001

Novell Confidential

Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001

Command Format

SHIFT [n]

Replace n with the number of places that you want the variable to shift. The

default is SHIFT 1.

Examples

When Mary logs in, she wants to access her word processing program, change

the way it is set up, and map a drive to her work directory called ACCNTS.

Mary also has a command in her login script to map a drive to her

DATABASE directory, but she does not need it today. The commands in

Mary’s login script are shown here:

:LOOP

IF "%2"="WP" THEN

SET WP="\U-CML\B-10\D"

MAP S16:=SYS:APPL\WP\SETUP

END

IF "%2"="ACCNTS" THEN MAP G:=SYS:ACCNTS

IF "%2"="DATABASE" THEN MAP S16:=SYS:APPL\DATABASE

SHIFT

IF "%2"<>"" THEN GOTO LOOP

(In the last line,

IF "%2" < >

is followed by closed quotation marks, which means “If %2 isn’t blank”.)

With these commands in her login script, and assuming a command line login,

Mary can log in to the primary file server (named FS1) using her username,

MARY, as follows:

The parameters in Mary’s login command are given the following values:

%0=FS1

%1=MARY

%2=WP

%3=ACCNTS

Mary’s login script looks for %2, which is WP, and sets the word processing

environment. Then the login script shifts the variables one to the left so that