On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:13:14 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, is there a way to call a REXX and have it change your copy of the > environment? > I believe that if it's called from Rexx as a subroutine (CALL X arg, ...) or a function (X( arg, ...)), or from the assembler (or equivalent) API it will execute in the caller's process space and share the caller's environment. All ways of calling it from shell will generate a fork or a spawn, and the EXEC will execute with a private copy of the environment. "." (sh) or "source" (tcsh) is not an option since each of those constructs causes the interpreter to invoke itself (recursively?) and requires the caller's syntax in the called file.
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