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

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