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Command in REXX to execute the text in a variable?

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From: Shaun Burnett
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:39
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	I'm writing a REXX .CMD file where I'm concatenating strings
	together to get a file name.  I then put the name of the
	program to execute in another variable.  What I would like to
	do is have the program execute with the file name variable as
	a parameter.

	So ...

	Filename='f:\utils\unzip -v '
	Program='g:\aoc.zip'
	xxxxx Program,Filename

	where xxxxx is a command that would pass "f:\utils\unzip -v
	g:\aoc.zip" to an environment shell (DOS or OS/2).

	Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I haven't found a
	"quick reference" that describes all the commands on one page,
	and it's a pain to have to look at the descriptions of
	commands one by one.

	Thanks.


Shaun Burnett		    |	"You can't survive on a new planet with a
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Subject: Command in REXX to execute the text in a variable?
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