Mike Ruskai wrote the following to All on 07-20-1994 regarding REXX
stuff...:

MR> icondir='c:\icons'
MR> call directory(icondir)
MR> call SysFileTree 'c:\icons', '*.ico', 'icons.', 'FO'
MR> do convert=1 to icons.0
MR> parse upper var icons.convert current_icon
MR> 'cvtico' current_icon 'temp.ico'
MR> 'del' current_icon
MR> 'ren temp.ico' current_icon '>>' logfile
MR> end
MR> 
MR> Later, I replaced the DEL with SysFileDelete to clean up a bit,
MR> but the  problem I ran into was that CMD.EXE puked.  Apparently it
MR> does not accept a  full pathname as the second argument.  

I guess you must mean that the rename did not work.  Use the FileSpec
function to extract just the name part from the full pathname, e.g.
  'ren temp.ico' filespec( 'Name', current_icon) '>>' logfile
                                                                           
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