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echo: os2rexx
to: Eddy Thilleman
from: Steve McCrystal
date: 1999-09-26 08:27:10
subject: Classic REXX files?

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In a msg of , Eddy Thilleman writes to Steve
Mccrystal:
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Eddy,

 ET> If you add REXX code to a plain batch file then that batch is not
 ET> a REXX file that can be run, you have to turn the whole batch
 ET> file into a REXX file: on the first line in the first column the
 ET> batch file must start with a comment, to begin with.

 As I mentioned earlier, I knew I must put a comment in as the first line of
STARTUP.CMD in order for it to be a REXX file.  I just forgot to do it! :(

Done correctly, it *does* work just fine!

My thanks to you and the others who reminded me!

-[Steve]-

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