ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) (06/23/89)
The next version of the Amiga operating system (version 1.4) will have Amiga REXX (AREXX) as a standard built-in feature. The Amiga's multi-tasking operating system will allow applications to communicate with each other using standard AREXX ports. Certain OS features may also be directly accessible using AREXX. No shipping dates are available.
hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Henry J. Cobb) (06/24/89)
The problem with using Arexx as the system control language for the amiga is that it will not 'locally' multitask. So I'm forced to use: Address Command "run rx junk.rexx ..." And this opens up a newcli (no problem to those people who have mass storage). What I would perfer is a 'SPAWN' command which works just like INTERPRET, but returns immediately after setting up the string in a separate process. i.e. SPAWN(expresion,input file,output file). If either the input or output is null, and the other is not a CLI, then open up a CLI. ,,, Henry J. Cobb hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu <@,@> "Any sufficiently advanced government is \-/ indistinguishable from anarchy."
ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) (06/24/89)
In article <14422@ut-emx.UUCP> hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Henry J. Cobb) writes: > > The problem with using Arexx as the system control language for >the amiga is that it will not 'locally' multitask. The new version of AREXX is supposed to have asynchronous ("A"-REXX) ports. Is this what you mean? Release is supposed to be immanent. c^2