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From: cq547@freent.toronto.on.ca (llizard)
Subject: Re: Ascii Hearts
Date: 1997/05/03
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In article <6Vsju1GKVJB@p-bwolff.newswire.de> Bernd Wolff wrote:
> 
> e93-vkn@sm.luth.se.nospam meinte am 29.04.97
> zum Thema "Re: Ascii Hearts":
> 
> ev> Greg wrote:
> ev> > oops...sowwy :(  It's REXX.  I thought I said that.  Oh well :)
> 
> Well, the source said it...strange that everybody is asking ;-)
> 
> ev> hmmm..... never heard of it... how does one make it work?
> 
> With e.g. PC DOS 7, just save it as a .BAT file and start it.
> I do not know about other systems such as OS/2 (which supports
> REXX) or the commercially available REXX for MS DOS... I might
> tell you about VM and MVS, but I guess you are not using it ;-)

.bat as in:

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or:


                   /^v^\
         /^v^\                      /^v^\
ejm 96          /^v^\                          

       /^v^\


?  (my idea of a little joke) 

Okay, I saved it as a .bat and here is what came up:

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C:\WINDOWS>end
Bad command or file name

C:\WINDOWS>
C:\WINDOWS>
C:\WINDOWS>/*make adjustments to text if necessary */
Bad command or file name

C:\WINDOWS>do while l<200
Bad command or file name

C:\WINDOWS>   the text=the text||heart||the text
Syntax error

C:\WINDOWS>   l = length(thetext)
Bad command or file name

C:\WINDOWS>end
Bad command or file name

C:\WINDOWS>
C:\WINDOWS>
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Please advise.


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