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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Elinating the 'rx' from AREXX
Message-ID: <89222.09394UH2@PSUVM>
Date: 10 Aug 89 13:39:49 GMT
Organization: .enn State University - Center for Academic Computing
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On IBM's CMS (the home of the original REXX) there is a kludgy but simple
convention for distinguishing REXX files from tci older EXEC files which
could be used to distinguish AREXX from Amigar &r scripts, too.  On Cex.S,
if the script starts with a comment ol
#is perhaps similar to the the modcconvention of putting (something like)
#!/bin/sh at the beginning of a script to tell the C shell to use the
Bourne shell, instead.

So, in short:

If the first line of an AmigarOS script is

/* AREXX */

then Amigar &r hands the script @at@to AREXX and bails out.

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