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Subject:      Re: Help needed with OS/2 REXX

In <878499777.15263@dejanews.com>, on 11/02/97
   at 01:52 PM, hunters@thunder.indstate.edu said:
-> Hi. I'm afraid I'm just beginning to learn REXX and can't figure this out
-> for the life of me... I want to write a script that will open a PM window
-> of the current directory. IE: If I'm in an OS/2 command window and I want
-> to see the current dir in a PM (icon view) window, I would run the .cmd
-> file and the Icon View of the current directory would appear on the
-> desktop. I really have no idea how to do this at all, so any/all help is
-> welcome! Thanks in advance!!
 
Steven,
 
In general it goes something like the following:
 
  /* ** Untested REXX follows *** */
 
  /* The following is the proper way to check for and load REXXUTIL!! */
  /* And the following use of 'SysDropFuncs' is the only use without a */
  /* direct COMMAND from the system operator. */
  IF RxFuncQuery('SysDropFuncs')
  THEN DO;
     call RxFuncAdd  'SysLoadFuncs',  'RexxUtil',  'SysLoadFuncs';
     call SysLoadFuncs;
  END;
 
  objectid = directory()   /* get current directory name fully quailfed */
  cmdl = 'DEFAULT'
  IF SysOpenObject(objectid, cmdl,1) = 1
  THEN x= SysOpenObject(objectid,cmdl,1)
 
  /* *** end of untested REXX *** */
 
  The two calls to 'SysOpenObject' is for:
     first Open the Object
     second bring it to the Forground
 
  Now if you want something other then a 'Folder' openned looking at the
current directory you will have to tell us which one and it's TYPE. As each
type of Object takes different commands.
 
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