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Joe – > I guess I didn't indicate that . . . Great – just wanted to be sure since it is a common oversight on introduction to ARexx – at least I made it and I'm as common as can be 🙂 > . . . an ARexx function…
Jim – > I depend on the ARexx interpreter to . . . Me too — I won't tell you how many times it has given me the "+++ Error 46 . . ." message! And, of course, we have here a prime example of the "things just JUMP out…
Jim – Forgive me for being a PITA nitpicker but — 🙂 > But it's OK to use it as a boolean as in example 1, . . . I'm sure that you meant: "But it's OK to use it in a boolean expression as in example 1 . .…
Joe – Just a few comments (that probably are superfluous :). First, I'm sure that you are aware that ARexx (and REXX) functions always return a value — for writech it is the number of characters written (of course :). However, it is NOT always obvious that if you don't…
> Did send it and got a message back. Great, hope you will be able to get your HW probs resolved. Bob ——
George – You can send internet messages on CIS just go mail and check the help. The address I gave is (I'm pretty sure) the one you would use at the 'To:' prompt (i.e. you precede the internet address 'jdow@bix.com' with 'INTERNET:'). Of course there is a cost to send…
George – > I called the tel that is on the directions, . . . Do you mean the one in the circa 1992/93 Read.First file? > MicroBotics, Inc. > 1251 American Parkway > Richardson, Texas 75081 > United States of America > > VOICE : (214) 437-5330 Sorry, but…
Erich – PMFJI but are you aware of Betty Clay's article on the Amiga startup routines, including the tests made during the boot process and the screen colors associated with the various stages — normal and otherwise? It is located in LIB 18 of this forum and (I believe that)…
Bill – I believe that the Microbotics' (copyrighted but freeware) RDPrep is still current. As far as I know, latest RDPrep is v3.91 and latest RDPrepX (the low level executable for RDPrep) is at v2.96 (just released). However, IMHO, Joanne Dow (jdow@bix.com – perhaps CIS too) would be the best…
Bob – > The problem has been fixed. Glad to hear it! ——
Bob – > There already is a User-Startup but it doesn't seem to be reading > it. How do you know? 🙂 Seriously — have you visible evidence that 's:User-Startup' is being accessed — and, if so, how far does it get? (i.e. are any of the startup statements being…
Paul – Glad to hear it! I'm still considering the upgrade but really don't have the nerve to do it while this is still my primary (and sole) machine. ——
Paul – > NO ROM CHIPS! Expert Services . . . How could that be??? I had just started to think about getting 3.1 for my CBM A2630 accelerated A2000 (with a GVP Series II HC+2) even though I had sworn to leave it at 2.1 until I (whimpering and…
> . . . Trimmer didn't screw anything up, Amigaguide just wouldn't show > me everything for some reason. I suspect that it is because AmigaGuide doesn't handle "embedded" formatting etc. commands that are split between lines. e.g. Look at Col 68 Line 106 (or so) of the original (un-reformatted)…
Paul (aka Mr. Zombie) > . . . every time I try to load it my machine crashes. Dunno what might be causing your problem but I was having a similar result with: $VER: DiskSalv.guide 12.12 (29.10.94) for DiskSalv 12.12 [DiskSalv.guide 172734 —-rwed 27-Oct-94 09:35:07] using AmigaGuide [under DOS 2.1]…
Bart – Just a comment, but have you remembered that 'open' and 'writeln' are functions that return values — open returns '1' for success and writeln returns the # of characters written (if I remember rightly). Consequently, if you don't assign that returned value or use the 'call' statement to…
> I have that file already,somewhere.But . . . Sigh, I was a beta tester for David and thought that all those type bugs had been caught (however, I'm running a 68030 accelerated A2000). You might send him a report — djunod@bix.com — dunno what his current projects are but…
Keith – You might want to check out David N. Junod's rexxutil.library. It contains (among other things) functions to read, write, and query the status of clipboard units from ARexx programs. 'rexxutil.library' can be found in: AmigaTech Lib: 7 > ZEDRX1.LHA/Bin Bytes: 108556 > > Title : ZedREXX 1.0 for…
Lib 7 ZEDRX1.LHA/Bin Bytes: 108556 Title : ZedREXX 1.0 for Amiga – GUI Extensions to REXX Keywords: REXX GUI JUNOD REXXUTIL REXXDOS LIBRARY SHAREWARE ZedREXX 1.0 for Amiga, a REXX Language Extension that adds sophisticated Graphical User Interface (GUI) capabilities using an easy-to-use yet extremely powerful syntax. Minimum system requirements…
REXX GUI Extension
Message #42560
In Library 7… ZEDRX1.LHA/Bin Bytes: 108556 04-Sep-94 Title : ZedREXX 1.0 for Amiga – GUI Extensions to REXX Keywords: REXX GUI JUNOD REXXUTIL REXXDOS LIBRARY SHAREWARE ZedREXX 1.0 for Amiga, a REXX Language Extension that adds sophisticated Graphical User Interface (GUI) capabilities using an easy-to-use yet extremely powerful syntax. Minimum…
Anthony – As already noted, OS/2 comes with REXX. In addition, Quercus Systems (GO PCVENA, S11/Quercus Systems) has Personal REXX for DOS, for OS/2, and for Windows. I have and use Personal REXX 3.0 for DOS and find it very satisfactory — although, under MSDOS, it can hardly match the…
Larry – > Rexxarplib.library 3.3 *itself* does not require 2.x . . . Ah, thought so — was going to get confirmation from Willy but just haven't gotten to it yet. VLT (5.865+) now requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher — as everyone is probably aware 🙂 REC ——
> v3.3 of rexxarplib.library MUST have WB2.x or higher. Interesting! Neither the RexxArpLib.Library Version 3.3 '.doc' file: > rexxarplib.doc 56202 —-rwed 20-Apr-94 00:57:26 nor the distribution 'Readme' indicate any such restrictions. In fact, the '.doc' file (still) explicitly lists GetFont as a '2.0 only' function and the new (to 3.3)…
While I don't know what version is in lib 7, I believe that the most recent version of rexxarplib.library is 3.3 (previous release was 3.0). Both versions should work with DOS 1.3 except (of course) 2.0 DOS features require 2.0x (or higher) e.g. ASL requestors. Willy's rexxarplib.doc synopsis of 3.3…
Terry – I've been using: > xprbplus.library 19004 —-rwed 08-Jun-92 21:02:08 > : xprbplus.library version 1.1 (8 Jun 1992) by Terry Finney off and on since it first became available here on CI$ with VLTJr (primarily with V5.576 and recently with V5.867). I have used it mostly for downloads (approximately…
MuchMore v4.3 & CLI???
Message #140463
Has anyone been able to get MuchMore v4.3 to work from the CLI?? Using WShell 2.0, DOS 2.1, PIP: (i.e. DHOpts PIP:), and with PIPE: > queue-handler 2664 —-rw-d 27-Jul-92 09:42:23 started by: > PIPE.info 481 —-rw-d 27-Jul-92 09:42:33 > PIPE 104 —-rw-d 27-Jul-92 09:42:16 in sys:devs/DOSDrivers/, Muchmore will: (1)…
Paul – I'm probably not understanding what you're looking for but … IMHO it's hard to beat Stefan Becker's ToolManager for adding to the Tools Menu … and for much more e.g. dock windows, hotkey activation, etc. > Computing Support AMIGAUSER > > [76703,2006] Lib:15 > TM21.LHA/Bin Bytes: 680848, Count:…
Roger – > Can I use CreateHost to launch the Apps . . . ? To start SbPro4 from ARexx, don't you want to do something like: . . . . . . /* Make sure libs are open */ if ~show('l','rexxsupport.library') then if ~addlib('rexxsupport.library',0,-30,0) then exit 20 if ~show('l','rexxarplib.library')…
Roger – For an excellent example of using the rexxarplib functions in a host that is implemented in ARexx, I highly recommend downloading: AmigaUser LIB 5 [71650,424] BBSQ60.LHA/Bin Bytes: 21189, Count: 3, 17-Jul-93 Title : bbsQUICK60.lha – Offline read reply ul dl 4 BBBBS Keywords: AREXX BBS OFFLINE READ REPLY…
Roger – > Maybe there's a support library out there . . . Sure is. You need to get rexxarplib.library by Willy Langeveld, SLAC > rexxarplib.library 45152 —-rwed 25-Apr-91 23:13:26 > : rexxarplib 3.0 (April 91) Check LIB 7 of this Forum: LIB 7 !sca des key:arp [76703,2006] RXARP.LZH/Bin Bytes:…
Superbase and Arexx
Message #61823
David – Yesterday I sent Mike@Oxxi, 76711,457, EMail describing both the 'QUIT' problem and the ARexx RC return problem. In addition, I sent him an archive with the recent Forum messages from you, me, and others. When I logged on today — I found a response from Mike thanking me…
Superbase and Arexx
Message #61716
David – > by sending it a 'QUIT', but the command never returns to AREXX . . . Unless you've come up with a solution already — I've managed to convince myself that this a 'bug' (or undesirable feature, if you prefer) in the SuperBase implementation of the ARexx interface.…
Superbase and Arexx
Message #61714
Christian – I don't mean to run the subject into the ground but, last night, I forgot what is probably a better reference about values returned by external commands or hosts. See the ARexx User's Guide, P/N:368759-01, section titled 'Return Codes' on p. 3-22: > This return code is placed…
Christian – Nope. External commands and hosts are supposed to follow the DOS convention of returning zero to indicate OK and a non-zero value to indicate an error condition. Ref: ARexx User's Reference Manual Version 1.0 Chap. 10 p. 92. Result Fields When the host program finishes processing the command…
David – > download stock quotes from CIS, parse the data, and . . . Sounds like you've gone beyond anything I've done so far!! > so the script hangs waiting for Superbase . . . Have any suggestions? Gosh, never thought of that! I suppose if you 'RUN'ned a…
David – > The manual suggests 'SBpro4' (v1.01). As I remember that is correct for v1.01 but you can always use the ARexx show('P') command from the CLI with SBase running to be sure. As you probably saw in my replies to Mark Manes, the examples were originally put together…
Mark – Hope it helps. It's been a while since I put it together (circa SBPro4 v1.01 I think) but I keep it around to help me remember how the interface works. BTW I forgot to include a definition of the SBase test file in the comments (although it's probably…
Darned Forum message formatting — sigh. It's probably obvious but the 'say' line in the list records loop got wrapped. It should have looked like: . . . . . . . . do while GetAVal('EOF("")') = 0 say GetAVal('FLD1') left(GetAVal('FLD2'), 40) , GetAVal('STR$(FLD3,5,3)') call SndACmd 'SELECT NEXT'; call SndACmd…
Mark – I can't tell you how much time I wasted before learning that it HAD to be option NO RESULTS when you sent SBase a command and option RESULTS when you were requesting a value (of a field, function, variable, whatever). It's actually shown that way in the manual…
[ continuation ] field1 = result /* otherwise is an error */ . . . . . As I said, this 'useta' work — current mileage unknown — Good Luck. REC ——
David – Hope the following example helps. It is a simple arexx program that is run from the cli to add one record to SBase file that is already open. (I haven't tried this program under SBase4 v1.3 but it worked under previous SBase4 versions.) – – – – -…
XPRZ26.LHA Legitimate??
Message #108397
Does anyone know who is the author of XPRZModem v2.6, as found in: > LIB 5 ! > > XPRZ26.LHA/Bin Bytes: 58284, Count: 79, 18-Jul-93 If the author of v2.6 is identified anywhere in this archive — I sure couldn't find it. In addition, while it would do downloads –…
John – > You might be wise to pass on this one. Right. > As the author states, he . . . Do you know who the author is? I couldn't find any clue in this archive — including looking thru the executable! I shoulda stuck with my usual rule…
#XPRZmodem v2.60 Uploads?
Message #108209
Reference AmigaUser: > LIB 5 ! > > XPRZ26.LHA/Bin Bytes: 58284, Count: 79, 18-Jul-93 Has anyone been able to get: > 24032 14344 40.3% 11-Jun-93 23:39:14 xprzmodem.library from this archive to work for uploads? If so, what's the secret? (It does seem to download OK.) I can't get it to…
Eric – I'm using a 1020 with a 2000 daily. It is unit 3, since it is daisy chained to an external 3.5" drive (1010). With CrossDOS Plus Version 5.06 3-Jun-1993 under Amiga DOS 2.1, the contents of sys:devs/DOSDrivers/PC3 follows: Device = mfm.device Unit = 3 Flags = 1 Surfaces…
Michael – Thanks for the info! I sure wish Stefan well but am amazed that he is able to keep up with school and everything else along with a project as significant as LhA. REC ——
Michael – I sent the $$, waited (and waited), and got LhA Registered V1.35 (9.7.92) (c) 1991,92 Stefan Boberg just before V1.38 was widely posted. I'm glad I sent the shareware fee, but (as always) would like to get/upgrade to the 'latest' registered version. In the disk you just got…
> This info is from a recently purchased copy of Excellence! so the > address and phone number should be current. NOT to doubt!?!?!? 🙂 REC ——
> . . . but it looks like 2.10 was it. Sometime in the hazy past (I don't remember when but it was before I upgraded to DOS 2.04) I got an upgrade to Analyze! v2.11 from MSS. (As always, the trick was finding out that they HAD a maintenance…
> BIX:langveld should get him just fine. Errrr . . . How about? > BIX:langeveld ^ 🙂 REC ——
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