Some senseless babbling from Jeff Patten to Mike Ruskai
on 07-23-94  21:22 about More REXX......

 MR> One thing that is sure to make it puke is for one of the
 MR> icons to have an  invalid filename character in it, namely
 MR> the '&' character.  As we all  know, OS/2 takes that to mean
 MR> another command is being given, and a command  like "r.ico
 MR> temp.ico" doesn't mean much.
 
 MR> To counteract this, I would like to detect for the presence
 MR> of this  character in any filenames and inform the user that
 MR> they must be renamed.   As of right now, the only way I have
 MR> of doing this is like this: 

 JP> If( Pos( "&", current_icon ) \= 0 ) Then ...

 JP> "&" *is* a valid character for filenames -- you are
accessing files
 JP> that include this character in their names, yes?  All you need to do is
 JP> pass the file name enclosed in double quotes (
'"'current_icon'"' if I
 JP> recall correctly).

I know I can use it in quotes, but the online reference does call it an 
invalid filename.  That is the correct way to quote it, thanks.
 
 MR> I would like to redirect the output of the SAY command to a
 MR> text file which  is referred to, but I do not know how to

 JP> I believe the proper REXX way is to use the ADDRESS keyword, but I
 JP> haven't worked with this myself.  You could also pass the redirector
 JP> symbols by enclosing them in quotes, as with the file name problem.

Others have referenced LINEOUT instead of SAY, but I don't need it anymore 
anyway.  I'll take a look at ADDRESS anyway though.  

Thanks for the help.

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