Just to be sure, you have written a REXX program for Windows before? You can make a program run and 'SAY' some jibberish on the screen?
I don't want to assume too much and I'm not trying to be patronizing :) Are you opening a file inside the REXX? If so, how are you accessing that file? What are you using to edit the REXX program? What format is the file? UTF-8 or ASCII? What line-endings did you specify? Windows uses CR+LF, while UNIX uses LF, and z/OS uses steam-powered wooden cogs. If none of my suggestions work, I suggest including (at least part of) your code in a zip file, uploaded somewhere so we can download and inspect it. Alternatively, you may smoke some peyote and speak to Cowlishaw's spirit for the answers you seek. Wait, he's still alive?? Scott On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Thompson, Steve < [email protected]> wrote: > I am attempting to solve a problem I have with some special files that > get used to drive some work under z/OS. > > > > 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)" > > > > [Where "fully qualified path and file name" is the actual fully > qualified Window's file name] > > > > I can not find any doc for "Error 13" (I have the manual for Regina REXX > printed and as a PDF). And I'm not seeing any odd characters in this > file (editing it with NOTEPAD). > > > > Can anyone give me a clue as to where these errors are documented (I've > been to sourceforge, no joy. No joy with http://www.rexxla.org/ either). > > > > Even better, what would cause this to think there is an X'FF' byte in > this record (the following is actually the first several records)? > > > > /* > > Read CONFIG files for QC and insert today's date as needed. > > > > This initial area is to define all the things that must be > > set up for the rest of the exec to work. In particular the > > names of files and the "handle" to associate them with. > > */ > > > > > > Regards, > > Steve Thompson > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
