#REXX for Windows???
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Does anyone know if there is a REXX package in Windows or Windows NT? or,
Is there a commercial 3rd party REXX package for Windows or NT?
I know of a package that they want to port to Windows and was wondering if
the AREXX port it has will be useable in the Windows or NT version.
<<< Tony D. Tracer >>>
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Don't know about Windows or NT, but I think it's in OS/2.
Kevin
Flying AutoPilot from Surrey in the UK
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 seamless performance of Bill Hawes' ARexx and WSHell running under AmigaDOS
— but then what could? 🙂
You can get further information of Personal REXX from either:
Charles Daney [Quercus] 75300,2450 – the owner
or
Stan Murawski 70444,55
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Thanks for the directions. Just the info I needed.
<<< Tony D. Tracer >>>
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We bought Portable REXX at work which has DOS and windows versions. It is
published by KiloWatt. The Windows version is unusable. At the last REXX
symposium, IBM discussed plans to release a version of REXX for Windows but its
not put yet.
As far as the ARexx port goes, I believe the notion of ports, the client/server
model, system lists of hosts and function libraries is Amiga specific and not a
general feature of REXX implementations. This fact may mean that much that you
are planning to do could prove undoable (at least via REXX).
If all that is sought is REXX as the macro language for the application, it
should be doable but forget about 'meta' scripts sending commands to control
multiple 'hosts'.
Bob
Thanks for the info.
As for the project that will be ported, they are MACROS that need to be
ported to REXX, I don't believe there are multiple `hosts' to worry about.
<<< Tony D. Tracer >>>
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Robert,
Rexx on OS/2 can handle multiple hosts. Not many programs are written
as such tho <sigh>.
There seems to be an extremely limited number of environments which can
accessed via ADDRESS. Also the business of registering all external functions
in each script is rather annoying under OS/2 REXX. As I understand it, OS/2
REXX scripts for applications supporting REXX must run on the applications
task. Whether this is caused by the failure to support ARexx style hosts or as
a side effect of the interpreter implementation, I don't have a clue.
Bob