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to: Steve Mccrystal
from: Eddy Thilleman
date: 1999-09-20 20:10:19
subject: Classic REXX files?

Hello Steve,

17 Sep 99 06:25, Steve McCrystal wrote to Eddy Thilleman:

JS>>> Why not just put the lines in the startup.cmd?

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

SM> I tried it, and that is indeed correct. I didn't try to make STARTUP a
SM> REXX file, but just adding the lines certainly doesn't work.

A .cmd file can only be _or_ a normal batch file _or_ a REXX file, and never
both.

SM> It's simple enough to just do a CALL. Thanks!

That's what I do. :)

  Greetings   -=Eddy=-        email: eddy.thilleman@net.hcc.nl

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