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From: bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: ARexx question
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Date: 2 May 89 13:40:05 GMT
Reply-To: bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
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Ok, heres a simple(?) ARexx question:

	How can I get the output of a DOS program, say date or
"ls -l fred", etc. into a variable inside of an ARexx program?
I couldn't find anything skimming through the manual, so the
closest I could get was something like:

	date ">pipe:date"
	call open mydate,"pipe:date",read
	datestr = read(mydate)
	call close mydate
	
which seems very round about, to me anyway.

	What I am trying to do is modify Archie.rexx to behave like
the temporary backup deamon on Unix - I want it to create a directory
for each file ( no problem ) and store modifications in it with the
filenames being the timestamp it was changed at.

Speaking of which, does anyone have ( or know where I can get )
some more Rexx scripts?  Mostly for learning/modifying ...
not BIX please, I have no access to that!

Thanx,
 Blair, slowing dwindling to being just another Amiga "user"
        ( I wish I had a project on my Amiga ... sigh )
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