Hello Murray!

13 Jun 95 07:43, Murray Lesser wrote to Francois Thunus:

 ML>     The best printed source of how to interface REXX with other
 ML> languages is the IBM manual "Procedures Language 2/ REXX
Reference" (IBM
 ML> p/n 10G6268).  In the US, the price is $15, directly from IBM PCT BOOKS.
 ML> Where you are, I haven't the slightest idea how much it costs, or how to
 ML> get it.  You might try your nearest IBM sales office (good luck).

will do, thanks.

 ML>     If you can stand on-line manuals, the REXXAPI.INF file that comes
 ML> with the IBM Developers Toolkit has much of the same material.  The
 ML> easiest place to find it is in DevCon if you don't already have it.

ok.

 ML>     The information in those sources deals mainly with interfacing to C.
 ML> I have never written a Pascal program, so do not know how hard it would
 ML> be to work with that language.

much the same as C++

 ML> I do know that If you want to write REXX "external
functions" in another
 ML> language, your other language has to be capable of compiling to an OS/2
 ML> DLL.

Pascal can do that, but it's rather the opposite I want to do, ie tap rexx's
power from inside my programs in order not to reinvent the wheel.

 ML>     Hope this helps.

sure does. Thanks

 ML>  * MR/2 2.23 #120 * One printed manual is worth a thousand INF files

I second the motion. There are a couple of INF to ASC file converter out there.
I have tried a couple to produce booklets of most interesting INF. The
whole online manual was about 350 pages, but I also prefer to have a hard
bound copy.

                             -= Francois =-


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