Some senseless babbling from Russ Williams to Mike Ruskai
on 07-23-94  21:22 about REXX stuff......

 RW> Mike Ruskai wrote the following to All on 07-20-1994 regarding REXX
 RW> 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.  

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

Yep, that's exactly what I said, and that is the fix I am using!  Of 
course, it actually is '"'FileSpec('name',current_icon)'"' since I want to 
make sure the & in a filename doesn't screw it up.

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