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- From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
- Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:28:25 GMT
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- Edward T Spire (ets@wrkgrp.COM) wrote:
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- : 3. REXX is used as a macro language for other applications (XEDIT
- : and ISPF come to mind) that have themselves been "ported". XEDIT macros
- : ported from CMS to Unix port very nicely indeed (since the primary
- : addressible environments are very similar). ...
-
- I wouldn't quite say "very nicely". Here are the problems I encountered
- trying to convert some of my XEDIT macros from CMS to uni-XEDIT/uni-REXX:
-
- extract /uniqueid doesn't work
-
- extract /size doesn't work
-
- extract /lscreen doesn't work
-
- extract /update doesn't work
-
- extract /terminal doesn't work
-
- extract /cursor doesn't return cursor.5 ... cursor.8
-
- extract /ring doesn't work
-
- Search for external functions is case-sensitive
-
- command pfile and command pquit not defined
-
- command line is not stacked on entry to PF key macro. This has been
- an undocumented feature of CMS XEDIT. However, in response to my
- Reader's Comment Form ES592, IBM has agreed the feature needs to be
- documented. As soon as the feature appears in IBM doc, I'll report
- it as a defect to TWG.
-