I did some more testing - thanks to STEMEDIT - and found that the stat's stem.0 does not have a value but stem.n.0 does
Lionel B. Dyck <sdg>< Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Horein Sent: Monday, December 9, 2019 7:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: readdir ? Hi Lionel! The example found here <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.bpxb600/prevar.htm> shows the path enclosed in parens: <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.bpxb600/prevar.htm> subroutine: procedure junk = syscalls('ON') parse arg dir 'readdir (dir) dir. stem.' It is quite possible this example is out of date, but if not... On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 6:37 AM Lionel B Dyck <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to use the readdir command in rexx and it is partially > working and partially not. > > > > This is what I've tried - both with the d. s. in quotes and not in quotes. > The d. returns data and the s. does not. The doc implies that s. > should return statistics info on the respective directory entry from d. > > > > Please advise - I'm sure it is something trivial I'm missing. I've > looked around and seen examples like that that work so it could be my > old eyes not seeing something. > > > > /* rexx */ > > dir = '/u/me/git/zigi' > > address syscall 'readdir' dir 'd. s.' > > say d.0 s.0 > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Lionel B. Dyck <sdg>< > Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com > > "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is > what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John > Wooden > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
