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- News
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- REXX/imc now supports language level 4.00, including the following features:
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- * NOTREADY and FAILURE conditions, CONDITION() builtin function,
- SIGNAL ON ... NAME ... and CALL ON ... NAME ...
- * value() with three parameters
- * stream() function for miscellaneous stream operations.
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- REXX/imc also supports several commandline parameters, enabling the user to
- interpret a string or turn tracing on (see rexx.ref for details).
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- Availability
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- REXX/imc runs on SunOS, but it has only been tested on Sun workstations. I
- hope that it will be able to run on most BSD systems, perhaps with a small
- change mentioned in the building instructions. I would appreciate it if
- users of systems other than those listed below who have found REXX/imc to
- work would mail me the details of what they had to do to get it running. I
- will maintain a list of supported platforms:
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- Hardware Operating System Notes
- Sun 3/50, Sun 3/60, Sun SPARCstation SLC SunOS 4.1.1 [1]
- IBM RS6000 AIX 3.2 [2]
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- [1] On these systems, all documented features of REXX/imc can be expected to
- work perfectly, except where there is a bug in the code. There should
- be no problems with compilation.
- [2] On these systems, the ability to use separately compiled function
- packages is (currently) lacking. A math function package written in
- Rexx (supplied) may be used instead of the compiled one.
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- REXX/imc is written entirely in C, and it does not use yacc or lexx, which
- gives the interpreter more control over its error messages. REXX/imc gives
- a full traceback when an error occurs.
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- The distribution of REXX/imc includes full documentation, including a
- tutorial on how to program in REXX (although I wouldn't regard it as
- a particularly high quality one ;-) ), a detailed description of the
- features supported, and a description of some of REXX/imc's internals.
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- REXX/imc is copyright, but free. Permission is granted to use, copy and
- redistribute its code, provided that the same permission is granted to all
- recipients, and that due acknowledgement is given to the author.
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- Ian Collier
- imc@prg.ox.ac.uk
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