I made the same mistake you did; parse external reads from the terminal, not 
frohm the external data queue. The concept of end-of-file is inapplicable for 
terminal input, although both TSO and *ix have kludges for files mapped to the 
terminal.


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Subject: Re: Scripting REXX thought -- inspiration or insanity?

Gil, you're probably going to say "yeah, that's not what I meant", but it sort 
of does.  I mean, that's what the queued() function call will tell you, no?

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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, March 16, 2020 12:31

Why does the Rexx standard not provide a means for PARSE EXTERNAL
to report end of input (e.g. SYSTSIN)?

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