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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Path: sparky!uunet!starnine!mikeh
- From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Subject: Textra and AREXX perfect together???
- Summary: Can I access textra from AREXX, if I can then how?
- Message-ID: <Bz9pGG.It6@starnine.com>
- Sender: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:09:51 GMT
- Organization: StarNine Technologies, Inc.
- Keywords: Textra, text editor, arrex
- Lines: 53
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- papo@pyuxf.cc.bellcore.com writes:
-
- >Hi netters:
-
- >I'm running TEXTRA v 1.11. In the editor you can call REXX scripts from a
- >very convenient menu. Can AREXX use any services from TEXTRA?
-
- >i. e.
-
- >ADDRESS TEXTRA "Command"
-
- >(I come from the IBM mainframe world and I know I can access ISPF/PDF
- >from REXX but I'm a total klutz in when you talk about programming the
- >Amiga)
-
- >Regards,
-
-
- >Luis Roberto Anaya-Rivera papo@pyuxf.cc.bellcore.com
- >-----
- >AWSDA member since 1992. "You have the absolute right to defend yourself".
- >A true PL/1 hacker. DCL 1 OBJECT BASED (THIS), 3 MEMBERFUN ENTRY;
-
- Textra versions prior to 1.13 do have a bug in the ARexx interface that
- causes a hang when you try to set Textra as the default ARexx host via:
-
- address "TEXTRA"
-
- However, ARexx commands can be sent to pre-1.13 Textras successfully on
- a per-line basis like this:
-
- address "TEXTRA" "gotoxy 0 0"
- address "TEXTRA" "hopselect next word"
-
- As I said, this is fixed in version 1.13 which is due to be released in
- January. v1.13 also sports a plethora of new stuff like a font requester
- for selecting the display font on a per-window basis, multi-processing
- (ARexx scripts and print jobs are handled in the background, while you
- edit a third file), Insert file, and a great deal more.
-
- The v1.11 Textra is supplied as an integrated text editor with JForth
- Professional; which uses Textra's exposed ARexx port to control it.
-
- For more information:
-
- mikeh@starnine.com
-
- OR
-
- Mike Haas
- 3867 La Colina Rd.
- El Sobrante, CA. 94803
-
-