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Date:	Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:46:19 -0800
From:	"Bob" <2lvvuss02@sneakemail.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Invoking OS/2 command file from within OS/2 REXX file

** Reply to message from "Steven Levine steve53@earthlink.net" on Sun, 3 Dec
2006 12:03:03 -0800

> /* rexx */
> fromfile = 'c:\XYZ'
> tofile = 'd:\XYZ'
> copy fromfile tofile
>
> will do exactly the same thing.
>
> An example of interesting side effects is long ago someone complained that
> their system would intermittently start lotus 123. Turns out they had a
> rexx script running in the background that contained the line
>
> somefunc()
>
> and bad luck had it that somefunc returned 123. :-)

Which is why I said to use quotes. It may not be necessary in all cases but it
is a safe construct. If the program is later change to use copy as a variable
name there will not be any bad side affects using quotes.

--
Robert Blair

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