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In a msg of , Jack Stein writes to Steve Mccrystal:
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Jack,

 SM>> In any case, I have a couple of programs that either don't
 SM>> work with OREXX, or don't work properly.

 JS> I'd like to see the code that doesn't work in OREXX.  When I
 JS> switched to OREXX, all my scripts worked fine except where I had
 JS> errors, and one function call that I dare not get into here
 JS> again.  Perhaps we can get your CREXX code to work in OREXX.

Actually, the most notable example is SFTP, a freeware ftp client that I
prefer over anything else I've ever used for the task.  It has a feature
called 'cruise mode' (allows one to change directories, or hosts, while a
transfer is in progress) which refuses to work with OREXX active.  Mind you, I 
have no idea why, only that it won't work.  The app is written in VP-Rexx.

And, on a related note, this code (kindly supplied by Mike Ruskai a week or so 
ago) will work in OREXX but not in CREXX, even tho the routine in question is
part of REXXUTIL:

=== Cut ===
/* strip EA's from files */
call SysFileTree '*.*','files.','FO'
call SysFileDelete 'eajunk'
do i=1 to files.0
    '@eautil "'||files.i||'" eajunk /s'
    call SysFileDelete 'eajunk'
end
=== Cut ===

This fails with an error message (function not defined, I think) in line 2.

Thanks, Jack.

-[Steve]-

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