Re: Some REXX help

2008-10-21 Thread RPN01
You can also make it a bit more readable, and less character set dependent, by replacing the \= with . -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation.~. RO-OE-5-55 200 First Street SW/V\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ -

Re: Some REXX help

2008-10-21 Thread Huegel, Thomas
] Behalf Of RPN01 Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:48 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX help You can also make it a bit more readable, and less character set dependent, by replacing the \= with . -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation.~. RO-OE-5-55 200

Re: Some REXX help

2008-10-21 Thread Schuh, Richard
. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RPN01 Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:48 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX help You can also make it a bit more readable, and less

Re: Some REXX help

2008-10-21 Thread RPN01
natural. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RPN01 Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:48 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX help You can also make it a bit more readable

Re: Some REXX help

2008-10-21 Thread Huegel, Thomas
AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX help Since Rexx accepts either the not sign or \ as an alternate not sign, and since the \ was foisted off on us a long time ago because of errors in sending files with the real not sign, I have become accustomed to seeing \ and thinking

Re: Some REXX help

2008-10-21 Thread Doug Breneman
Date: 10/21/2008 01:41 PM Subject:Re: Some REXX help Trying

Re: Some REXX help

2008-10-21 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:00:19 -0500, RPN01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, \= is not not equal at all; This conversation was the first t ime I'd ever seen that notation. The not sign is specific, but doesn't exist on some character sets. The only consistent one would be , at least in my

Some REXX help

2008-10-20 Thread Huegel, Thomas
I copied this line from the REXX VM/REFERENCE It is from a sample SOCKETS SERVER exec (page 16.2). When I try to execute it I get errors. I have not seen code like this before, I wonder if anyone can explain the technique to me? if restnotsym;='' then call error 'E', 24, 'Invalid parameters

Re: Some REXX help

2008-10-20 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Huegel, Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if restnotsym;='' then call error 'E', 24, 'Invalid parameters specified' Its the restnotsym;=''that I don't understand. \= or /= Someone expected that to be substituted by the not sign Rob

Re: Some REXX help

2008-10-20 Thread Doug Breneman
Subject:Some REXX help I copied this line from the REXX VM/REFERENCE It is from a sample SOCKETS SERVER exec (page 16.2). When I try to execute it I get errors. I have

Re: Some REXX help

2008-10-20 Thread Schuh, Richard
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 3:55 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX help On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Huegel, Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if restnotsym;='' then call error 'E', 24, 'Invalid parameters specified' Its the restnotsym;=''that I don't

Re: Some REXX help

2008-10-20 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:06:48 -0700, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot e: Ah, but the semicolon makes it two Rexx statements. The same as If restnotsym; ='' then call ... Your syntax will be better if you remove the ; Regards, Richard Schuh Standard HTML entities like gt; and lt; start