"if you execute it, for every file it starts an AREXX script ("foo.rexx") with the name of the original file as parameter - though you still have to do the renaming and saving in the AREXX script itself."

Have bar.bat in Ram: Thank-you! How do you execute it? Made a "Say " script and named it foo.rexx...It read all the lines in the batch file fine Now how do you execute the line?
foo.rexx "ram:200905021015wv300en.ps"

Below is the process script
options results
arg sourcefile

if open(input,"Ram:200905021015wv300en.ps", R) then do
if ~open(output,"Ram:200905021015wv300en.txt", W) then call error

Do until eof(input)
line=readln( input)
if pos('(',line) =1 then writeln(output, line) /* line begins with '(' at POS 1 */
end
close(input)
close(output)
end

EXIT

ERROR:

SAY "ERROR"

EXIT


[ Edited by osco on 2010/4/26 15:58 ]