Mike Ruskai wrote in a message to Geert Bosch:

 MR> BTW, SysFileDelete would be a standard REXX counterpart to
 MR> ERASE. 
SysFileDelete is an external function from RexxUtil, which is non-standard.
Of course it's standard for OS/2, but so is 'ERASE' and now I don't require
the RexxUtil library to be present and/or loaded. Replacing 'ERASE' with
'RM' on Unix systems will be easier than figuring out what those RxFuncAdd
and SysFileDelete functions do. 

 MR> And FYI, my goal is not to make a faster decoder, but a
 MR> smarter one that  can handle more situations.

Yes, that would be nice! Could you send me a copy when you're ready? 
If you want to keep it fast, remember that standard Rexx functions are
orders of magnitude faster than those written in Rexx. So, using some ugly,
inefficient representation with efficient Rexx functions will nearly
allways be faster than writing an 'elegant' Rexx counterpart.

Groetjes, Geert 
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