-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 2:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Regina REXX under W/XP
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve > Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 2:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Regina REXX under W/XP > > 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)" <SNIPPAGE> Any chance that the file is UTF? <SNIP> BINGO! I went back to notepad and did a Save AS and it showed UNICODE. So I changed it to ANSI and retried it and it took right off. Thanx. I'd been battling this between meetings for most of the morning. 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
