On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:19:37 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >So I did a little searching and discovered a whole new REXX manual I did not >know about REXX/UNIX > It's precious! And, dismayingly, it's the only place that BPXWDYN is documented. Proving that Conway's Law applies to documentation as well as to code.
>Do a display on RETVAL and see what it shows after your READFILE > And the documentation is sketchy. It may not be clear that if RC<>0, no system call is issued and RETVAL is meaningless, perhaps undefined. On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:41:11 +0100, jan de decker wrote: >Hi list, > >John, thanks for the suggestions but the first one gives me a n rc of -1, >the second one gives an rc of 127 > >Anybody any idea? > Is RC=127 what shell returns for an unrecognized command? Are you perhaps using "address SH" (by default) rather than "address SYSCALL"? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
