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- From: warren@borg.com (Warren Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
- Subject: Re: Variables and external commands??
- Date: 9 Jan 1996 00:45:35 GMT
- Organization: Team OS/2
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- In <4cr6mm$ea@crow.cybercomm.net>, jwrugo@raven.cybercom.com (John W. Rugo) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- >Can some one please help me. I am taking a two string variables
- >and some quoted strings and concatinating them into a single
- >value. this single value I want to be used to run an external
- >program.
- >
- >I am trying to create an installation routine using unzip32.exe.
- >I can't seem to get it working. I put two values in that
- >represent drive and path for source and target. I can't seem
- >to get it to work though.
- >
- >Any help would be greatly appreciated,
- >John.
- >
- >/------------------------------------\
- >John W. Rugo
- >jwrugo@raven.cybercom.com
- >
- It is a shame that none of the .inf files nor the standard REXX manuals have the
- keywords CONCATENATE or JOIN or ABUT or COMPRESS.
-
- The symbol is "||" as in
- avariable = "xyz"
- res= "a string" avariable || 'morestuf'
- Yielding "a string xyzmorestuf"
-
- Warren
- http://www.borg.com/~warren
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