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to: Murray Lesser
from: Francois Thunus
date: 1999-11-20 23:51:00
subject: rexx

Hello Murray!

19 Nov 99 21:53, Murray Lesser wrote to Fred Springfield:

 ML>     REXX is a great programming tool for quick and dirty jobs, or even
 ML> for jobs that spend most of their activity manipulating text files, but
 ML> I would not use it as a complete substitute for BASIC PDS, even though
 ML> there are things that are easier to do in REXX than in any other
 ML> language that I know: anything that "needs" the REXX PARSE statement.

fyi:

>----- Begin -----

REXX2EXE.ZIP              202K 11-20-99
 Free rexx "compiler" (generates .EXE from .CMD).
http://www.os2bbs.com/file_d/rexx/REXX2EXE.ZIP

>-----  End  -----

just in case :-)

                             -= Francois =-
                      Francois(at)telematique(dot)org
                       http://www.telematique.org/ft

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