Hi David--

    Do you have any comments, helpful or otherwise, about RXPREP?  This
is a preprocessor for REXX source code, written (in REXX) by Richard J.
Moore of IBM UK.  The following paragraph is an excerpt from the
introduction to RXPREP.DOC, as it appears in the July, 1999, CD-ROM
issue of DevCon Release 2 Volume 3 (disc M15):

    "RXPREP is a pre-processor for REXX source.  It permits source to be
  built from multiple members which are selected by imbedding
  directives.  Nesting of imbedded members is supported.  Also supported
  is the use of conditional inclusion of source or members as well as
  substitution of placeholders specified either within the source or
  from the command line.  In fact the features of RXPREP mimic those
  frequently found in C compiler pre-processors and assembler macro
  languages. The pre-processor is controlled by coding directives within
  the REXX source which have a syntactical resemblance to those of the
  SCRIPT language."

    (For those in the audience who are not familiar with IBM utilities
other than those furnished with OS/2, "SCRIPT" was a mainframe internal
IBM markup language for formatting documents written with any
lime-by-line text editor (often SPF).  There was a vintage-1986
IBM-distributed shrink-wrapped version, SCRIPT/PC, for PC-DOS.)

    A cursory reading of RXPREP.DOC leads me to the belief that the
advantages of a REXX preprocessor (even though it is free!) are not
great enough for me bothering to learn yet another language just to use
it, so I do not intend to install RXPREP.  But I may be missing
something.  Your comments would be appreciated.

    Regards,

        --Murray

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