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Date:	Sun, 3 Dec 2006 11:28:30 -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 "Harry Motin hmotin@sbcglobal.net" on Sun, 3 Dec 2006
08:34:47 -0800

> >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

No need to go to all that trouble. Just put the program name, and possibly any
fixed parameters, in quotes and any variables outside the quotes.

/* rexx */
fromfile = 'c:\XYZ'
tofile = 'd:\XYZ'
'copy' fromfile tofile

--
Robert Blair

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