CompuServe Messages

Mike, Remember that the command you pass to an external host is treated as an expression in REXX. The interpreter will evaluate the expression and then pass the resulting string to the specified host. Thus if you've got a minus sign (or any other operator) that you want to pass as a literal, rather than having it evaluated, you'll need to enclose it in quotes. Basically anything you don't want to have evaluated should be in quotes. -Bill Hawes