Don{ald} O. Woodall schrieb:
> In , on 04/04/2005 
>    at 11:44 PM, "Lloyd Jones"  said:
> 
> Hi Lloyd
> 
> 
>>All I can assume is that you changed your quotes from the original 
>>sample. This will work:
>>   'md "abcde''f"'
>>- the quotes are as follows:
>>single, double, single, single, double, single
> 
> 
>>The OS/2 command will then see - md "abcde'f"
> 
> 
>      You need to remember we switched from using OS/2 commands to using
> REXX commands.
> 
> 
>>Lloyd
> 
> 
>      Are suggesting somethong like:
> 
> CALL sysmkdir ""Desktop\Programs\Develop^ment\IBM!!Developer's!!
> Toolkit!!version 4.5""
> 
> would work?

No!

" is from sight of REXX the start of a string like ' does at the same 
position. The next " will end the string, resulting in an empty 
string. The next har will start as a variable name.... So unil the 
first ' it will be intrpreted as a variable named destop\.....

The single quote char behind ...per will start another string, meaning 
concatenation the value of empty string combined with the content of 
the variable named deskto..... and an inccomplete string 's.......
-> syntax error as the string is not terminated.

REXX is thinking:
- anything that is not quoted and ends befor a space OR an operator is 
a name of a variable. If that name can not interpreted as an operand 
of an operator (e.g. =, ==, !=, =, ) it will be 
interpreted as holding a commant to either REXX or the command 
processor REXX runs in. That results here in an syntax error.

You would use
path =
"destop.......'s"d2c(10)"Toolkit"d2c(10)"version....."

The double exclamation mark is nothing than the translation of hex 0a 
(decimal 10) to a printable char and NOT real!

As sayed use simple the sysfiletree() procedure to read in the names 
and use the stem to reproduce them to the destination drive.

I saved yet often enough to learn REXX to mak things really simple.

rc = sysfiletree(path, stem., "FO")
gives you the list of files of an specific directory - simple, eh?
rc = sysfiletree(path, stem., "DO")
gives you the list of directories in a specific directory - simple, eh?
path = 'x' || substr(stem., 2,  letngh(stem.i) - 1)
rc = sysmkdir(path)
will create a directory from the path on drive x instead of the 
original path.

Yes, there is the part missing that gives you the right value for i - 
but you owns that. Learn to understund REXX from the dample you owns 
already.

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