Excerpted from message dated 08-20-95, hugo landsman to Murray Lesser:

HL>Dave Boll's YDBAUTIL.DLL contains a RxQuerySysInfo function and loads
  >of other external functions for easy prototyping in REXX.  It's free
  >and usualy found in a RXU.ZIP archive 
  >(ftp://ftp-os2.nmsu.com/os2/dev32/rexx/rxu18.zip)

    Thanks, Hugo, but I write my little REXX utilities with the idea of
sometimes publishing them.  As such, I cannot use a DLL that isn't
included in OS/2 itself, or is compiled and linked from source code in
the piece.  The "electronic distribution" of the piece includes any
linked DLLs whose source code is included, so anyone with an installed
OS/2 system can run the program with no outside aids.  So I wrote my own
specialized verion of the DLL.

    I am thinking of writing a piece on using PL/I but I am deterred by
the thought of asking the editor to include 1.5MB (Zips to a little over
750KB) of PL/I run-time DLLs, even though they can be distributed
royalty-free!

          --Murray

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