John,

Like a Rexx arg implied function ....

Scott

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 10:42 AM John McKown <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 9:33 AM Michel Beaulieu <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > On z/VM and my RHEL 7 laptop, I have this tool  that I use.
> > Perhaps you can extend it to fit your purpose.
> > On a command line, I type:
> > calc <rexx statement>
> >
> > [<mydir>]$ cat ~/sbin/calc
> > #!/usr/bin/rexx
> > /*  REXX  */
> >  trace errors
> >  rc = 0
> >  PARSE ARG expr
> >  IF expr <> '' THEN DO
> >       numeric digits 20
> >            interpret 'Say' expr
> >                  EXIT
> >                     end
> >
> >   exit rc
> >
> > ===
> > I hope this helps!
> >
>
> Yes, I guess that I could write a REXX script which itself does what I want
> the "rexx" command to do. I was thinking of writing something in C or
> HLASM. But doing it in REXX itself would likely be easier. The only
> "problem" might be in how large a REXX program the "INTERPRET" command can
> do. And there are some exclusions, e.g. no labels and so no SIGNAL <label>.
>
>
>
> >
> > Michel Beaulieu
> > IBM Services (Canada)
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> >
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> >
>
>
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