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Date:	Fri, 5 Nov 2004 09:45:26 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Basic rexx question

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In <31374.23.35.22.04.11.2004@seadog.reno.nv.us>, on 11/04/04
at 11:57 PM, "Jon Harrison" said:

>That works for me.

Good to hear.

>A bit of logic error, lots of inexperience with Rexx,

OS/2 users use REXX because it is there, but I believe that the lack of
default error and syntax checking make the language harder than need be to
learn. I avoid most of this by turning on any and all available builtin
error checks. Take a look at the scripts at:

<http://home.earthlink.net/~steve53/mr2i/>

and you will see what I mean.

>It's really amazing that

Not really. It's just experience.

>BTW, background mode works just fine.

I thought it might once you posted the PMMail definition. Both foreground
and background run your script synchronously.

BTW, you might think about the stream ... seek call at line 93 of your
original code even though it's probably gone by now. You never told REXX
where to seek to and the REXX manual implies an offset value is required
even though the OREXX parser does not seem to agree.

Regards,

Steven

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