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ARexx Update Disk
Message #127643
Notice to AREXX Users: The ARexx V1.06 update disks are now available. The changes include bug fixes, new built-in functions (including DATE() and SOURCELINE()), support for extended ASCII characters, new support library functions, two new external function libraries, Modula-2 bindings, and a directory of example program contributed by ARexx users.…
ARexx Update Disk
Message #127643
Notice to AREXX Users: The ARexx V1.06 update disks are now available. The changes include bug fixes, new built-in functions (including DATE() and SOURCELINE()), support for extended ASCII characters, new support library functions, two new external function libraries, Modula-2 bindings, and a directory of example program contributed by ARexx users.…
If the window is associated with a CON: , you can send it a DOS ACTION_DISK_INFO packet and get the COnUnit from the pointer to the IORequest. If it's not a CON: window, you could chase the COnUnit list by first opening console.device on a window of your own, following…
If the window is associated with a CON: , you can send it a DOS ACTION_DISK_INFO packet and get the COnUnit from the pointer to the IORequest. If it's not a CON: window, you could chase the COnUnit list by first opening console.device on a window of your own, following…
ConMan revision
Message #126183
I've just posted CONREV.ARC, an interim revision to ConMan 1.1. It fixes a couple of reported bugs and adds a new minor (but useful) feature: you can set a minimum line length for the history buffer. If you'd rather not be bothered with 1 or 2-character commands on the history,…
ConMan revision
Message #126183
I've just posted CONREV.ARC, an interim revision to ConMan 1.1. It fixes a couple of reported bugs and adds a new minor (but useful) feature: you can set a minimum line length for the history buffer. If you'd rather not be bothered with 1 or 2-character commands on the history,…
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Access program?
Message #125627
Henry, Sometimes you can unfragment by closing down selected programs and starting them up again; everything should release the memory it allocates. This doesn't work, tho, if you've started up some program in the background that grabs a chunk of memeory right in the middle of everything else.
#125500-
Access program?
Message #125627
Henry, Sometimes you can unfragment by closing down selected programs and starting them up again; everything should release the memory it allocates. This doesn't work, tho, if you've started up some program in the background that grabs a chunk of memeory right in the middle of everything else.
Henry, Sounds like a problem of memory fragmentation. Sometimes having lots of programs running will break the available memory into pieces too small to be used by another, even though the *total* amount may seem like plenty. — Bill
#AREXX/CMS
Message #124213
Larry, I've thought about building in more direct support for asynchronous I/O to allow waiting on multiple events, but it's pretty tricky to to that and still provide a protected programming environment. If the REXX program encountered a syntax error after sending a packet to an I/O handler and then…
#AREXX/CMS
Message #124213
Larry, I've thought about building in more direct support for asynchronous I/O to allow waiting on multiple events, but it's pretty tricky to to that and still provide a protected programming environment. If the REXX program encountered a syntax error after sending a packet to an I/O handler and then…
Hi Mark, Gee, a CMS emulator? Now there's a good weekend project (grin). Actually I would like to create workalikes for EXECIO and a couple more. The program stack is already there, as part of the streams managed by ConMan. If you write to a ConMan stream using the private…
Larry, (jumping right in) The current dir (or rather, lack of one) is confusing, and occurs because of a bug in DOS's Execute(). If you're using ARexx to talk to a shell (that is, WShell for now, but hopefully others will put ARexx interfaces in as well) then the path…
Vic, Perhaps if someone could pass me an example of the compiler's output file I could put together a REXX program to parse it. REXX is happy on a diet of binary, as its PARSE instruction allows pattern matching, as well as positional parsing and tokenization. Just tell me what…
#ARexx scripts
Message #121030
Hi GreG, AREXX doesn't lend itself to direct compilation, since the INTERPRET function can be used to construct arbitrarily complex programs on the fly. You can pass programs as arguments to functions, for instance. I am redesigning some of the internals to speed up the repetitive operations, and may adopt…
Thanks for the info … will check it out. What is MWB though? Bill Hawes
Larry -I hope to become more active here over the next couple of months — online services are great for customer support! How is WShell working out? (I trust you received the V1.0 mailed out a few weeks ago?)
Larry -I hope to become more active here over the next couple of months — online services are great for customer support! How is WShell working out? (I trust you received the V1.0 mailed out a few weeks ago?)
A MOUNTED command is indeed useful. I put one into my WShell for just the reason you cited.
A MOUNTED command is indeed useful. I put one into my WShell for just the reason you cited.
Gabe, Commodore hasn't documented anything regarding to how their shell can be invoked by Execute(), although I had thought that the 1.3 RUN command (which is used to process the command) was smart enough to look for shell-seg on the residnet list. There is a much better solution, however, which…
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