, on 11/13/98
at 12:15 AM, dallasii@kincyb.com said:
>It produces a 'SYS1803 Chaining was attempted from a ReXX batch file.'
>error. (Until it is preceeded with 'CALL'.)
Interesting. Thought it would be smart enough to do an implicit CMD /C
like START /C. Guess not.
>SL> 'start cmd /c test8 'Qnew' > test9.txt '
>Tried this.
>It doesn't seem to output anything to test9.txt.
>Same thing with the CALL inbetween '/c' and test8.
Appears that the Queue is empty. I assume by "doesn't seem to output
anything", you mean test9.txt is created as a zero length file.
>Definitly not the case, I don't have any such function - besides, CALL
>is internal to CMD.EXE....
I was kidding. I knew about CALL. I just didn't expect it to work
correctly from inside the REXX interpreter. Guess it must.
>Steve L. (or anyone else lurking out there) -
>any idea why this has to be hard coded?
Yep, it's documented:
The second parameter specified for Create, Set, and Delete must abide
by
the same syntax rules as for REXX variable names. (There is no
connection, however, between queue names and variable names. A program
can have a variable and a queue with a common name, and there is no
connection between them.) The actual name of the queue is the
uppercase
value of the name requested.
The way I read this is that the preferred syntax is:
Qold = RXQUEUE('set', NOISSES)
There's a couple of other places REXX does this.
Steven
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