Date:         Fri, 31 Oct 1997 08:09:05 -0800
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From:         Frank Merrow <fmerrow@QUALCOMM.COM>
Organization: QUALCOMM, Incorporated; San Diego, CA, USA
Subject:      Re: An Old Rexx hand is stumped by DIRECTORY()

>>I have been doing Rexx under OS/2 for a LONG time.  Now I am trying to
>>move a bunch of REXX scripts from OS/2 to WinNT using IBM's Object Rexx.
>>Mostly, things are going Okay, but one item has me stumped.
>
>>DIRECTORY("gohere")
>
>>Doesn't seem to work.  Well, it works, but ONLY for the Rexx script and
>>not for the underlying DOS prompt.  In fact, if I do a "dir" in the Rexx
>
>       I think that's a known bug in Win Object Rexx. Drop by
>http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/orexx
 
Thank you for the pointer to the update.  I picked it up and installed
it.  However, while I do see some bugs associated with the DIRECTORY()
command, none that seem to apply to my case.  (Still I am very happy
to have the update.)
 
The solution I came up with is a really old DOS trick.  I wrap the
REXX script in in a BAT file.  The BAT file calls the REXX script and
then calls a BAT file created by the REXX script.  In short, I export
the answer and then run it.
 
I suspect this is not a bug, but rather a "feature" caused by the fact
that ObjRexx isn't integrated into the command shell like it is in the
OS/2 World.
 
Frank