Peter Knapper wrote in a message to Eddy Thilleman:

 ET> Then you have to turn the whole startup.cmd file into a 
 ET> REXX file (I don't know if that's possible).

 PK> Too many external utilties modify STARTUP.CMD expecting it
 PK> to be a standard .CMD file, otherwise there is no problem
 PK> making it into a REXX script. I resolve this issue by adding
 PK>   Call LDREXX.CMD to STARTUP.CMD and place my REXX stuff in 
 PK> LDREXX.

I've never had anything modify my startup.cmd file, except me?  I've seen
things modify config.sys, and autoexe.bat in DOS, but never startup.cmd.  

                                              Jack 
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