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- RxComm.DLL
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- With the advent of OS/2 1.2 Extended Edition, IBM began including a
- new script language for OS/2 - REXX. REXX has been available on VM
- and the Amiga for years, and is a GREAT prototyping language.
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- Since I am always tinkering with some communications, I decided to
- write some routines to interface REXX to the serial port. I did not
- get to far into the project (about 2 hours!) when I decided that the
- performance of the REXX interpreter in OS/2 was just to poor to
- support REAL-TIME serial communications.
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- I still use the routines occasionally to beta a comm product - we
- designed our original serial LAN interface using this, and I cannot
- wait until OS/2 2.0 (with REXX) when the performace *should* be much
- better.
-
- I am releasing this code (source and executable) into the public
- domain so others can see how easy it is to write REXX extensions.
- Note that it does require the IBM toolkit, but I do use Microsoft
- C. (Actually, all it requires from the IBM toolkit is REALLY
- the REXXSAA.h file - the library is not really used).
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- If there are any questions about this code, I can be reached at:
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- Mark C. Smith
- 2638 Marrietta
- Farmersvilles, Tx 75234
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- 214/484-4470
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- I accept NO responsibilty for the code not working, crashing etc. It
- was only tested briefly, and not designed for REAL intensive work.
- It is re-entrant, so it may be used from more than one session at one
- time (I think).
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