Some senseless babbling from Rob Hamilton to Mike Ruskai
on 07-24-94  21:06 about REXX stuff......

 RH> Whenever I had a long list of OS/2 files to send to the mainframe, I
 RH> used a CMD file to strip off the path to create the mainframe file
 RH> name.  I did something like this:

 RH> parse var PCFILE  FILEID "\" rest;
 RH> do while rest  "";
 RH> parse var FILEID  FILEID "\" rest;
 RH> end;

 RH> and upon exit, the FILEID variable contains the file name without the
 RH> path.  This was particularly helpful if I wanted to retain the path
 RH> tokens.  Of course, you could always substring the file name, use the
 RH> LASTPOS function to find the last "\" in the file name,
and substring
 RH> from there: 
 RH> fileid = substr(pathplusfileid, lastpos("\",
 RH> pathplusfileid)+1); 
 RH> presuming that you have already checked for the existence of the
"\"
 RH> in the fileid.  

Upon other suggestions, using FileSpec works just nicely.  Seems to be 
much simpler.  Thanks for the suggestion though.

 RH> And, yes, there is a REXX echo called OS2REXX. B-)

It's not on the backbone :(

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