CompuServe Thread

JM >>I have trouble starting RexxMast. Every time I click on the icon, the program loads and shows a window "starting RexxMast" and it disapears.<< That is what it is suppose to do. RexxMast, runs in the background, and waits for you to send it an ARexx program from the CLI, or from a program with an ARexx port. You can write an ARexx script using ED or MEmacs, and using the CLI you send run the script by placing the 'RX" command in front of the script command. Using ED, you can write/edit an ARexx script, and also run it from ED to test it. Unless you have edited the file 'ED-Startup" in the S: directory, delete ED-Startup, or rename to see the *FULL* default options of ED. Ron. – ap'ing with AP. (Eagles may fly, but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines.)

Before clicking on RexxMast at all, try this: Go into CLI/Shell, and command: RX "say hello" … if the computer replies HELLO, RexxMast is already running and you'll never need to click on the icon. … if the computer does not reply HELLO, then try clicking on the RexxMast icon once. Now try the command again. … if the computer still does not say HELLO, come back here and tell us what it says, and we'll do our best to get it going. If you do get the computer to say HELLO and would like it to say other things (try RX "say 55+66"), you'll need to read up on the ARexx language. Again, come back here for suggestions. –Jim