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REXX Tips & Tricks
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Contents
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1. General Information
2. Installation in OS/2
3. Using RXTT in non-OS/2 environments
1, General Information
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RXTT33.INF is an OS/2 INF file. The INF file format is a special
file format for online documentations from IBM (mostly used in OS/2).
To read it in OS/2 use
view rxtt33.inf
2. Installation in OS/2
-----------------------
(text contributed by Steven Levine)
To install RXT&T and create a Desktop icon:
- Unzip the install package to a work directory (i.e. c:\tmp).
- Copy rxtt*.inf to some directory listed in the BOOKSHELF environment
variable (i.e. c:\books).
- Open an command line session and run the installer with:
c:
cd \books
c:\tmp\install x:
where x: is the boot drive. The installer uses this to find view.exe.
The installer needs to run from the directory containing RXT&T so that
it can find the .inf file. :-)
The RXT&T icon will be created on the Desktop.
To use the supplied rxttwww.cmd, copy it to some directory listed in the
PATH environment variable.
To update to a new version of RXT&T, follow the same procedure as above.
The installer will find the existing icon and update it. Once this is done,
the old version of RXT&T can be deleted.
You can also use the View.exe replacement Newview.exe to view RXT&T.
But please be aware that Newview.exe at this time does still not support
all function of view.exe and therefor some functions of RXT&T are not
usable if using Newview.exe (Tested with Newview.exe version V1.33.0).
3. Using RXTT in non-OS/2 environments
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To read this file under other operating systems (e.g. Windows 98) you
need an INF Viewer for your operating system.
A possible view program for Windows 3.1 (and newer Windows versions) is
oview.exe
You can find oview.exe here:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/windows/win_inf.zip
You only need the files
ipf.dll
libipfx.dll
oview.exe
and for the online help:
hmhelp.hlp
viewh.hlp
from the file ov_demo.zip inside of win_inf.zip. It should be possible to
decompress them without installing the demo - but I don't know how (I'm
not so familar with Windows). The INF viewer in this ZIP is the version 2.10.
Another source for an INF viewer for Windows 3.1 is the "Just Add Warp Package"
from IBM. You can download it from
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/tools/jaow/jaow.zip
Be aware that the size of this ZIP file is about 3 MB! The INF viewer
in this ZIP is the version 2.20.
The version 2.1 of the INF viewer for windows is also in the FileCommander/W
package by Brian Harvard.
Please note that both versions mentioned above can not handle some of the
bigger sections in RXT&T.