The function LINEOUT()

The function LINEOUT never deletes the output file. To rewrite a file, you must delete it with DEL (or SysFileDelte, if using REXXUTIL) and than recreate it.

To empty the file without deleting it you can use the OS/2 commad

 
  type nul >filename

In Object-Oriented REXX you can use a new option for the STREAM to open a file in "overwrite" mode (see also The function LINEOUT() in Object REXX).

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