From: Adam Flinton 

Don Hills wrote:

> Something that may be of interest to old OS/2 users and Bob Comer:
>
> IBM Object REXX is going "open source".
> IBM are in the process of handing over the code base for all platforms
> to the REXX Language Association who will administer it as an open source
> project.
>
> The most immediate effect will of course be that there will no longer be a
> charge for the Windows version. Anyone wanting to whip up a quick utility to
> do, for example, the job of Antti's "LIST" utility now has a
quick and easy
> tool with which to do it. (Example posted to binaries)
>
> There are quite a few function libraries available, I know of ones for
> math, TCP/IP, SQL, serial I/O etc.
>

Quelle domage that it's come too late for a number of things for me.

I used to have to sneakily install the replication stuff from DB2 coz that
included a free but hidden runtime....

Adam

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