Re: Win9x and Arachne ?
  By: Robert Bull to Leonard Erickson on Sun Jul 13 2003 08:30 pm

 > Windows.  All those little DOS apps strung together in batch files mean I
 > can make mini-apps of my own without real programming, and not many DOS apps
 > have been re-written for Win 32-bit command lines.  
 
Most likely you can't find the DOS app.s written in 32-bits because they were
recast in either REXX or PERL to make them more portable.  PERL 4.x patch level
19 can run on my IBM PCjr.  B-Rexx with Paradox Dbase extensions runs on my DOS
PC as well.  Even better, their batches can be moved from system to system,
DOS->WINDOWS->Mainframe and back again.  In a networked environment with a
server attached to "web space", a batch that is machine portable
is of greater
use.  There is even a version of Regina REXX for the DOS PC, although B-REXX is
a bit more optimized for your basic DOS PC.

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