phao172@ut-emx.UUCP (Randy M. Roberts) (08/11/89)
In article <15814@watdragon.waterloo.edu> rtczegledi@crocus.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi) writes: >Rexx? It's pretty fun. Really makes the amiga great. >I'll be posting some scripts as soon as I find my UUencode. > . . . Just a friendly word of caution, IMHO there are quite a few Amigaphobes who subscribe to this newsgroup. I believe all REXXes are created equal, but what do I know. Randy Roberts phao172@emx.utexas.edu
shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) (08/12/89)
In article <15814@watdragon.waterloo.edu> rtczegledi@crocus.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi) writes: Richard> Rexx? It's pretty fun. Really makes the amiga great. I'll Richard> be posting some scripts as soon as I find my UUencode... Not much point in uuencoding ARexx scripts; they're ASCII... On 11 Aug 89 14:38:33 GMT, phao172@ut-emx.UUCP (Randy M. Roberts) said: Randy> Summary: Warning, Danger, Will Robinson, Danger, Danger! Randy> Just a friendly word of caution, IMHO there are quite a few Randy> Amigaphobes who subscribe to this newsgroup. There appear to be. Unfortunately, they don't quite all realize that this is not an Amiga-specific newsgroup. Randy> I believe all REXXes are created equal, but what do I know. Not necessarily... One of the most important things about ARexx [Amiga REXX] is that it supports (and de facto standardizes) IPC using the Amiga's message-passing system. So far as I know, most versions of REXX have nothing of the sort... (I could be wrong.) Deven -- Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu Snail: 2214 12th Street, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 271-0750 Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) (08/12/89)
My apologies to the people on the IBM side of the link. I'll pound on Rob (again) Monday about fixing things. If you want to pound on him, send mail to "rob@violet.berkeley.edu" asking that he fix the Rexx newsgroups. In article <SHADOW.89Aug11164532@pawl.rpi.edu> shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes: < <In article <15814@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <rtczegledi@crocus.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi) writes: < <Richard> Rexx? It's pretty fun. Really makes the amiga great. I'll <Richard> be posting some scripts as soon as I find my UUencode... < <Not much point in uuencoding ARexx scripts; they're ASCII... And to the point: For those who are interested, I have a rexx archiver analogous to shar. You point it at multiple files, and it writes a Rexx script to standard output that will recreate those files when it's executed. Because of the problems with the BITNET/USENet gateway, I'm not going to post the program. If you want it, send mail. If I get enough requests & get the gateway fixed early next week, I may post it then. <mike -- Cats will be cats and cats will be cool Mike Meyer Cats can be callous and cats can be cruel mwm@berkeley.edu Cats will be cats, remember this words! ucbvax!mwm Cats will be cats and cats eat birds. mwm@ucbjade.BITNET
ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) (08/15/89)
In article <16953@ut-emx.UUCP> phao172@emx.UUCP (Randy M. Roberts) writes: >Just a friendly word of caution, IMHO there are quite a few Amigaphobes >who subscribe to this newsgroup. 'Amigaphobes'? I could understand folk for whom Amiga Rexx info would not be useable. I've seen plenty of C code that was useless to me because it was for a particular machine that did not interest me. But I don't think I'd say I was 'afraid' to see this code! :-) -- First comes the logo: C H E C K P O I N T T E C H N O L O G I E S / / \\ / / Then, the disclaimer: All expressed opinions are, indeed, opinions. \ / o Now for the witty part: I'm pink, therefore, I'm spam! \/
phao172@ut-emx.UUCP (Randy M. Roberts) (08/15/89)
In article <12270@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) writes: >In article <16953@ut-emx.UUCP> phao172@emx.UUCP (Randy M. Roberts) writes: >>Just a friendly word of caution, IMHO there are quite a few Amigaphobes >>who subscribe to this newsgroup. > > 'Amigaphobes'? I could understand folk for whom Amiga Rexx info >would not be useable. I've seen plenty of C code that was useless to me >because it was for a particular machine that did not interest me. But I >don't think I'd say I was 'afraid' to see this code! :-) I was only commenting about the episode a few months ago when Non-Amiga REXX users were upset that Amiga REXX users were planning to distribute Amiga-specific REXX scripts to this newsgroup. Perhaps their attitudes have changed since then. :-) Since this newsgroup has a very low signal (much less a low signal-to-noise ratio) a few machine specific REXX postings couldn't hurt too much. Perhaps when REXX takes over the world, and this is the most popular newsgroup (next to alt.sex), then we should consider limiting the machine specific postings, and perhaps create a comp.lang.rexx.amiga, etc. I hope that I did not offend any openminded persons. Regards, Randy M. Roberts phao172@emx.utexas.edu
vkr@osupyr.mps.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) (08/17/89)
In article <17072@ut-emx.UUCP> phao172@emx.UUCP (Randy M. Roberts) writes: >I was only commenting about the episode a few months ago when Non-Amiga >REXX users were upset that Amiga REXX users were planning to distribute >Amiga-specific REXX scripts to this newsgroup. Perhaps their attitudes >have changed since then. :-) I believe that any and all "amigaphobes" [and those on the BITNET mailing list] went to comp.lang.rexx.vm [or was it vms?]. May be that explains why this newsgroup is so quiet. It also means that you need to go there to learn about REXX , rather than ARexx. -- It is the man, not the method, that Nath solves the problem. vkr@osupyr.mps.ohio-state.edu -Poincare. (614)-366-9341