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Date:	Sun, 3 Dec 2006 08:34:47 -0800
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Invoking OS/2 command file from within OS/2 REXX file

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On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:27:09 -0800, Bill Eaglet wrote:

>How can I invoke an OS/2 (non REXX) command filke from within
>an OS/2 REXX command?

You have to place the OS/2 command inside of a set of quotes. Any REXX command
that appears in quotation the REXX interpreter passes along to the OS for execution.
For example:

Commandline = "COPY C:\XYZ D\XYZ"
Commandline = '"'Commandline'"'
INTERPRET Commandline

The above three (3) REXX lines will result in your copying the file, XYZ, from the C:\ drive
to the D:\ drive. Please note the beginning and ending double quotation inside of the
set of 2 single quotation marks on line 2.

Sometimes you can define variable to be a double quotation. For example:

Double_Quote = D2C(34)
Commandline = Double_Quote"COPY C:\XYZ D\XYZ"Double_Quote
INTERPRET Commandline

34 is the decimal value for the ASCII double quotation mark
HCM

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