Bit of a shock .. almost all my major Rexx programs failed in weird ways
with the 4.0 beta. Tracked down the problem to:
stream(spec, 'c', 'query size')
now returns
517394710866
if the file named in spec does not exist -- previously it returned 0. I
used that because 'query exists' does not work for directories.
Oddly the doc does not specify what 'query size' returns of a file is
unknown, so I should not have been relying on that anyway ....
Unfortunately I've been using it for years, and it's in over 200 of my
programs... progress report later ...
Mike
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