Date:         Mon, 5 Feb 1996 00:01:13 +1300
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From:         Jim Simmons <jim@SIMMONS.ACTRIX.GEN.NZ>
Organization: Upstairs in the West Wing
Subject:      Re: OS/2 REXX: How can I use '<' and '>' in input and output
              arguments.

I heard a rumour that Horst Kiehl  <h.p.kiehl@kfa-juelich.de> said:
>In <4eoj4r$k3p@dfw.nkn.net>,
>jack@cyberloans.com writes:
>
>> I want to call the md5.exe program from OS/2 REXX. I need to be able to
>> include the characters '<' and '>' in the arguments to the md5 program.
>> If I do a
>> /**/
>> 'md5 -s<1996013150293@kf5mg.ttsi.tandem.com>test'
>>
>> The code calls md5, but OS/2 interprests the brackets as stream
>> re-direction characters. Does anyone know of a way around this problem?
>
>Put double quotes around the parameter containing the angle brackets (or
>other command line operators). Add code to the REXX program to remove
>these double quotes if necessary.
>
 Yes that will work, but a simpler method is to "escape" the characters
 so that rexx will ignore them, then you wont have to worry about
 changing md5.
 The caret (shift-6) "hat" is the escape character.
 so try 'md5 -s^<1996013150293@kf5mg.ttsi.tandem.com^>test'
 
 You need to escape semi-colons, commas, etc as well.
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