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On Wed, 12 Feb 1992 16:57:31 CST Richard A. Schafer said:
>WARNING: Scott's exec breaks without warning anytime
>a semicolon was contained in a quoted string, so the exec will *not*
>correctly unpack the MAILB00K XEDIT file, which contains such strings
>in several places.  (It would also fail for semicolons within comments,
>but none of those exist because the comments have been stripped before
>compressing the code.)

Richard,
  Not trying to be defensive or anything, but did you try my routine and
then the resulting file?  I have run it against MAILB00K and run the
output with no problems.  Just to be sure I just created the following
EXEC and it runs perfectly.

:READ TEST EXEC
/**-------------------------------------------------------------**/
say 'this is a comment;
split onto two lines'

  The result was the following;

this is a comment;split onto two lines

  Or do some versions of REXX die for this and others don't?

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