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- From: ntring@bruny.mpx.com.au (Nick Ring)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Team AMIGA Wish List
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 19:17:46 GMT
- Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
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- Andreas Mixich (humpty@TOMATE.TNG.OCHE.DE) wrote:
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- : > >Give the OS a global ARexx server and the User a shell,that also can
- : > >directly send ARexx messages. This way this would work easily.
- : >
- : > You can already send ARexx messages from a shell:
- : > SYS:> rx "address PORTNAME an_arexx_command"
-
- : No, you did *not* understand ! This one launches an extra task or process.
- : Rx is a command itself. I am talking of a shell, that executes ARexx
- : commands without submitting a port, for example. Try that one, for example:
- : If you enter
- : Shell.> rx 'do i = 1 TO 2; say Hello; end'
- : you get
- : +++ Error 26 in line 1: Missing or unexpected END
- : Command returned 10/26: Missing or unexpected END
-
- Try the following, change the single quote (') to double quotes (")...
-
- rx "do i = 1 TO 2; say Hello; end"
-
- : Have you ever heard about WShell bythe creator of ARexx ? Once ARexx is
- : more powerfull and better integrated (even better ;-)) this might be cool.
-
- : Mixing of DOS and ARexx is possible already by doing a SHELL or ADDRESS
- : COMMAND. But that way,it even would be more easy.
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- nick
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