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From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AREXX
Message-ID: <21485@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 11 May 91 06:34:03 GMT
References: <1991May10.153111.26018@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Reply-To: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991May10.153111.26018@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> yurkon@CYCVAX.NSCL.MSU.EDU writes:
>					... I can no longer get arexx programs
>to execute under 2.02.  I create an arexx file, named test.rexx and put it
>in the default directory.  I have also tried putting it in the rexx: directory.
>When I type rx test or rx text.rexx I get a "Command returned 5/1: Program not
>found" error.  Am I doing something wrong, or is it broken under 2.02?
>
>	John

My first suspicion would be that you have forgotten to put the
required comment line as the first (non-blank) line in your
'test.rexx' file.
 
	/* test.rexx */
	say "test"
 

will work, while simply

	say "test"

won't (and will give you exactly the error that you are getting.)

bj

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