2010/1/4 Thompson, Steve <[email protected]>:

> So I thought the best thing to do is write the REXX code to run under
> Windows. So when I execute the code, REXX comes back and says:
>
> Error 13 running "fully qualified path and file name", line 1: Invalid 
> character in program
>
> Error 13.1 Invalid character in program "('ff'X)"

It's probably part of a Unicode Byte Order mark (BOM) X'FEFF' or
X'FFFE', which Notepad will not show you. How did you create/save the
file?

Tony H.

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