Assigns in 2.1
Steve,
You mention that AmigaShell doesn't requires the .rexx extension. Let
me explain what Chris was referring to.
WShell considers both AmigaDOS and ARexx as native script languages.
Because of this, single-line ARexx commands maybe executed just as
single-line AmigaDOS commands. Because ARexx is a native language, it
will look for 'greet.rexx' in REXX: if you just type 'greet' at your
prompt. To do the same thing in AmigaShell, you'd do "rx greet" _or_
"greet.rexx". In other words, you either give AmigaShell the means with
which to find the file (rx) or you explicitly name the file in its
entirety (greet.rexx). WShell _automatically_ executes rexx programs as a
native language and will find '*.rexx' files without '.rexx' being
specified.
Incidentally, a major feature of WShell is that it is itself an ARexx
host. Makes it very handy for doing ARexx stuff!!! <G>
Ric Fischer
SoftWood Tech Support
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
(602) 431-9151