CompuServe Thread

Hello Mike, I've received the update to SB4 to V1.3 including the new manuals. The first question is: as I now have 3 (three) serial numbers each for one update, I now want to know which one to use as reference. As well I have a suggestion for the next set of manuals: please include the addendum manual for the DMLanguage inside one of the other two manuals – Using DML I often have to look up the larger manual as well as the addendum (for commandws after SET FORM BF). I encountered a problem using ARexx within DML. For an application I had to write a small ARexx programm checking DOS things which returns a value for failure or success. Using the syntax: CALL "AREXX" RETURN "myrexxprog" variable$ from withing DML and the statement IF whatever THEN EXIT 10; ELSE EXIT 0 within the ARexx programm. Whatever I do, I do not receive the return value in the variable$. At least the ARexx programm gets called and runs. What did I make wrong? Now the ARexx programm stores the value to a T:temp file and SB reads the file and makes its decision. Enhancement request: 1. I'd like to see a new structure in DML using "REPEAT UNTIL". 1a. IF-GOTO Label would no longer be needed 2. Is it possible to include (PASCAL/AREXX LIKE) FUNCTIONS or PROCEDURES for the next release of SB? 2a.Modularisation would help making the whole thing better readable and care about return values/variable names 3. Could it be done that external DML programms may be called as subroutines and not only invoked by "CHAIN". 3a.So a once written routine in a larger application which uses more than one DML file would not have to be copied over all the other programs but could easily be used by lots of modules (reusability) All of this would make life much easier for all SB programmers. Thanx -Mike CompuStore GmbH |Michael Metz |Fritz-Reuter-Str.6 |D-W6000 Frankfurt 1 Tel: +49 69 567399| CI$ 71001,210 | Fax: +49 69 5601784