its ok, apparently the tput command is the culprit, tso has a problem displaying certain characters whereas ispf does not, as a result other undisplayable characters also appear as colons (':') {such as curly brackets etc). The actual character is still as entered, ie backslash is '\' but...
Also, is there a better way of pulling in a gdg family using the base than outtrapping (and stripping out extraneous data) the output from listcat;
such as ;
GETDATA = OUTTRAP("RAWOUT.","*")
"LISTCAT...
try this in mvs rexx
/*rexx*/
say '/'
as you would expect you get a '/' displayed on screen.
now try
/*rexx*/
say '\'
note backslash not forward slash, it converts it to ':'
this is a problem for me since im trying to NDM files from mainframe to NT shared drives using connect direct, and...
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