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  2. Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 08:27:45 EDT
  3. From: James Justice <JAY@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
  4. Message-ID: <92253.082746JAY@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
  5. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
  6. Subject: Re: Self-Extracting Binaries dangerous? (Was: REXXShip: Self-Extractin
  7. References: <1992Sep6.175645.24543@midway.uchicago.edu>
  8.  <DENS.92Sep8074930@sawwhet.owlnet.rice.edu>
  9.  <1992Sep8.151847.10060@midway.uchicago.edu> <67843@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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  13. In article <67843@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt1610c@prism.gatech.EDU (MCGAUGH,MICHAEL
  14. KENNETH) says:
  15. >>It would be terrific, but, unless I'm mistaken, I'm forced to use
  16. >>QUEUE statements, which prevents true xx-compatibility.  If anyone has
  17. >>any ideas on this, I'll be glad to do it for the next release.
  18. >>
  19. >
  20. >Doesn't REXX have a command for reading its own source code?
  21.  
  22. You should be able to use the Sourceline() function to extract lines of
  23. the REXX cmd file.  This would allow you to have a program at the beginning
  24. of the cmd file and follow it with the XXENCODED file!
  25.