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Date:	Sun, 3 Dec 2006 21:13:25 -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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Bill,
The other thing you can do here is run the OS/2 command file (I assume you mean here
an OS/2 batch file, normally run from an OS/2 commandline), using the OS/2 "CMD"
command. Again, because you are in REXX, you have to enclose the OS/2 command
within quotations (I did not make this up; the REXX user guide plainly states that you
have encase any OS/2 command inside quotes; the REXX interpreter will pass that
command on to the OS/2 environment for processing, instead of trying to process the
command itself).

So for example:

Commandline = 'CMD /C ""C:\UTIL\MY_BATCHFILE.CMD""
INTERPRET "Commandline"

The above two (2) lines, when placed in a REXX script, open an OS/2 command line (a
command processor) and run the batch file, MY_BATCHFILE.CMD.

As I recall, there is a slight difference in REXX, using the OS/2 "CMD" command versus
the OS/2 "START" command. If you use "START", the REXX interpreter will continue
processing any remaining REXX commands after you invoke "START". However, if
you use "CMD", the REXX interpreter will stop after invoking "CMD". You then have to
close that commandline (command processor) for your REXX script to continue
processing any remaining REXX commands.
HCM

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 15:41:17 -0800, Harry Motin wrote:

>On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 15:04:51 -0800, Bill Eaglet wrote:
>
>>How can I invoke an OS/2 (non REXX) command file from within
>>an OS/2 REXX command?
>
>
>Use the OS/2 START command. For example:
>
>/*Begin starting the TimeKeeper/2 clock and the Internet Connection Dialer,
TCPDIAL.EXE*/
>/*Begin starting the TimeKeeper/2 clock*/
>CommandLine = 'START "Time Keeper" /PGM /PM
"C:\UTILITIES\Time_Utilities\TIMEKEEPER!2\TIMEKEEP.EXE"'
>INTERPRET "CommandLine"
>CALL SysSleep 1 /*Wait 1 second until TimeKeeper/2 finishes opening*/
> /*After 1 second the Internet Connection Dialer will have the
focus*/
>/*End starting the TimeKeeper/2 clock*/
>
>
>I lifted the above from an old REXX script that I used to start Netscape Navigator with
my dialup service. I wanted the "Timekeeper!2 utility program to run concurrently
>with Netscape.
>HCM
>
>
>
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