-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 2:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Regina REXX under W/XP
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? <SNIP> I wrote it using TSO/ISPF. I then copied it via Windows (Copy/Paste operation) into Notepad -- paying particular attention to NOT capturing attribute bytes. Then I manually deleted all the follow-on bytes in Notepad specifically to avoid any such issue. 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
