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to: Byron Desnoyers
from: Beat Bruelhart
date: 1995-06-27 08:56:14
subject: Re: Passing Arguments to a REXX Program ...

BD> When ever I pass an argument to a REXX program the argument is converted to
 BD> all capital letters for some bizzare reason.  Is there any way to avoid
 BD> this?  I am trying to create a batch file to call the proper archiver from
 BD> a DOS or OS/2 command prompt and InfoZip will only use a
"-j" vs. the "-J"
 BD> my REXX batch file keeps passing.

 BD> BTW - I am using:

 BD> -------

 BD> arg argument
 BD> path"Zip.exe" argument

 BD> -------

Try with the command

	PARSE ARG argument

instead.

cu. Beat
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