Ini variable [----]---- not found, yet ini there

Could anyone help me with my error "Ini variable '[EMCMOT]EMCMOT' not found." when I ran command prompt halrun the a.hal file, even though I have the .ini file that has

[HAL]
HALFILE = a.hal

It worked once, not I couldn't get it to work.

Thank you, experts, for your help! I am a young Padawan learner.

If you are using halrun you need to pass it the name of the INI file directly.

linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/man/man1/halrun.1.html

halrun -i my_ini.ini

Awesome! Thank you very much, Andy!