DOUG GLENN wrote in a message to JERRY MCBRIDE:

JM>I'm ready to buy into one the Visual REXX packages, after tinkering
JM>around wi
  >IBM's VXREXX, and I'd like to know...

 DG>   You mean Watcoms VXREXX don't you?

Sorry, I meant to write VXREXX/2 by IBM...

JM>Are any (or all) of the commercial Visual REXX packages capable of
JM>using add-
  >function such as REXXBASE, RXASYNC, REXXLAN/2, etc. and still
  >compile my REXX
  >ripts to a stand-alone executable (not including the runtime DLL)?

 DG>   VISPRO REXX does. Has been almost from its exception. 

Thanks for the information, Doug. This was what I was looking for.

 DG> Have to get that myself. I only fire up VXREXX now for the 
 DG> debugger. Am not  sure if VISPRO debugger can follow spawned 
 DG> threads (which VXREXX  can't either).

Again, thanks for the info...

 DG>   From the same people as Vispro C/C++

I'll look into it. I believe Vispro REXX is the one that was used to
compile some demo rexx programs that I have... They use external dlls,
alright.

Cheers!
        Jerry


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