TITLE

   RexxOpt - ARexx script optimizer

VERSION

   1.7 (09.01.95)

PROXITY SOFTWORKS

        A cooperation of Amiga developers. Their intention is to
        release high quality software under one label.

        Members are: 
        Boris Folgmann, Ulrich Sibiller and Christian Hechelmann.

PETS

        Proxity Engineering and Technical Support

        Usenet:  pets@amiuni.tynet.sub.org
        Fidonet: 2:246/1416.0 (pets)

AUTHOR

        Ulrich Sibiller

        Address:  Finkenweg 4
                  71540 Murrhardt
                  Germany

        Usenet:   uli@pizza.tynet.sub.org
        Internet: sibilluh@trick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
        Fidonet:  2:246/1416.38 (Ulrich Sibiller
        IRC:      Proxity

        Phone:    ++49-(0)7192-8908

        V.32bis 14.4 or HST 14.4 with ASL/V.42bis

DESCRIPTION

        RexxOpt optimizes your ARexx scripts by removing all information
        not necessary.  This results in a faster execution speed, making
        working with ARexx much more comfortable.

        When run in default mode (no switch given in command line) the
        following is done:

          - all unnecessary blank characters (ASCII 9, 32 and 160) are
            removed
          - all comments are removed
          - consecutive strings are merged to one single string
          - ';' is inserted in front of any DO within the script
          - all blank characters outside strings and comments are
            replaced by <space> (ASCII 32)
          - all (remaining) lines are put into one single line
          - a new comment line is put in front of the script because
            ARexx requires ARexx scripts to begin with a comment.

        This is V1.7, an update to V1.6.

NEW FEATURES

        - New switch DEOPT: (re)insert linefeeds
        - Minor code optimization concerning nested comments
        - New switch FIRSTCOMMENT: Don't strip first comment
        - Filehandling rewritten: it is no longer necessary to provide a
          destination filename. This introduced some new error messages and
          made some of the old obsolete.
        - Titlecomment and filecomment are now set according to current mode
          (optimize/deoptimize).

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

        You need AmigaOS 2.0 or better to run RexxOpt.

        Additionally it would be a good idea to have ARexx installed on
        your system since it makes not much sense to optimize ARexx scripts
        when you can't use them.

HOST NAME

        Any Aminet site, e.g. ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (129.96.8.13)

DIRECTORY

        /pub/aminet/util/rexx
        /pub/aminet/recent

FILE NAME

        RexxOpt_1.7.lha         13967 Bytes

DISTRIBUTABILITY

        Freeware ) 1995 by Proxity Softworks.