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| 2398.1 | MFF and TeX | CRLWIN::treese | Win Treese, Cambridge Research Lab | Sat Mar 25 1989 01:55 | 13 |
| I have some AREXX macros (not written by me) that take bibliographic
entries out of an MFF database and turn them into BibTeX format.
Rather handy, actually. I wish my workstation could do it.
Actually, I've been thinking about how one would do AREXX kind of
things (e.g., using application ports to pass data around) on my
DECwindows workstation (Ultrix or VMS). One could build quite an
interesting environment.
In this case, Commodore has it now. If only they could sell it...
- Win
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| 2398.2 | That AREXX miniature golf game.. | TENAYA::MWM | | Fri Aug 16 1991 17:09 | 19 |
| It's not a utility, but it's something interesting to do while things
are running in the background.
To answer 4783.9 - no, there isn't any hint in the manuals that you
can do something like that with Rexx. Nor is there in Bill Hawe's manual.
CBM doesn't even ship the libraries you need to run it (Willy Langeveld's
RexxArpLib and RexxMathLib).� Since Bill distributed those, this creates
some problems for people using 2.0 with older scripts. But not as many
as those caused by people who have startup scripts that open those libraries
and then have rexx scripts that assume they are open.
There is an ARexx compiler available. It's a commercial product, and in
beta test (the author is willing to sell anyone a Beta copy, at about a
33% discount). I decided not to order a copy, mostly because I don't
have a critical need for it now. I'll almost certainly buy one in the
future. At that point, I'll be able to compile the golf game and distribute
the binaries.
<mike
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| 2398.3 | AREXX script > executable | TERSE::ROBINSON | | Fri Aug 16 1991 17:54 | 12 |
| This is what I had seen. Its probably not in the same league as the
complier you are talking about, though.
CONTENTS OF DISK 463
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ExecRexx A program that turns an ARexx script into an executable
which can be run from WorkBench or the CLI. Binary only.
Author: Jeff Glatt
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| 2398.4 | | TENAYA::MWM | | Fri Aug 16 1991 18:37 | 12 |
| [BTW, for those who don't have context - we were discussing a miniature golf
game written in ARexx, see note 4783.8].
ExecRexx sounds like a hack that wraps the Rexx script up in a binary, and
just feeds it to Rexx. I'll have to look at it, though, as that's one of
the things I was interested in the Rexx compiler for.
The compiler generally makes your rexx script run faster (there are some
oddball cases that will cause it to slow down, though). I thought that
was the goal.
<mike
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| 2398.5 | | TOOK::DROBINSON | | Mon Aug 19 1991 11:37 | 6 |
| > I thought that [speed] was the goal.
Yes, I was mistaken about ExecRexx, remembering only "creates binary"
and assuming that meant complier.
Dave
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| 2398.6 | | TENAYA::MWM | | Wed Aug 21 1991 19:04 | 10 |
| I dug out the Fish disk with ExecRexx on it. It explicitly states that you
don't get a speed increas out of it.
You're also required to use the Dissident's library of Rexx interface
routines. Bleah. I already blew one attempt to get this script to someone
else by forgetting that CBM doesn't distribute the Langeveld libraries,
even though Bill did. I'm not interested in adding another one for that.
Sigh,
<mike
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