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from: `Julian Thomas`
date: 2004-10-05 20:18:56
subject: Re: REXX - So Simple = Extremely Hard

In, on 10/05/04 
   at 04:30 PM, "Don{ald} O.
Woodall" typed:

> H:\DOWNLOAD\Back-Again2\backagain2000ws\210b
>       H:\DOWNLOAD\Back-Again2\backagain2000ws\210c

>     The ultimate, final goal of the program is to change the above
>string to:
>           md DOWNLOAD\Back-Again2\backagain2000ws\210b

do while lines(infile)>0
     x=linein(infile)
     z=pos("\",x)
     y="md "||substr(x,z+1)
     call lineout outfile,y
     end

Should be the gist of it with the appropriate wrappers to open and close
files, etc.  No template needed.

 
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