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- From: MsgPost.v1.00@mtask.omahug.org (MsgPost v1.00)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: [4 of 5] MONTHLY POSTING Arexx Applications List, September 1992
- Message-ID: <60.2aa5f208@ivgate>
- Date: 02 Sep 92 07:56:36 CST
- Reply-To: msgpost.v1.00@mtask.omahug.org
- Organization: Multitasking Systems, Kansas City
- Sender: news@ivgate.omahug.org (UUscan 1.10)
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Lines: 430
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- Status: freeware
- Port name: showdvi
- Number of commands: 30
- Executes scripts by: function keys, CALLMF environment variable
- Notes: Part of the PasTeX 1.3 distribution
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- Product name: ShowMaker
- Product version:
- Product type: MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION
- Author: Gold Disk
- Status: commercial
- Port name: ShowMakerArexx.port
- Number of commands: 7
- Executes scripts by: Invoking them from within a presentation
- Notes:
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- Product name: Sim Earth
- Product version:
- Product type: GAME
- Author: Maxis
- Status: commercial
- Port name:
- Number of commands: 6
- Executes scripts by:
- Notes:
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- Product name: SKsh
- Product version: 2.0
- Product type: COMMAND LINE INTERFACE (SHELL)
- Author: Steve Koren (Fish Disk ???)
- Status: freeware
- Port name: SKSH, or user definable
- Number of commands: all shell commands available
- Executes scripts by: External control only
- Notes: Passes results of evaluation back to ARexx.
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- Product name: Slidemaster
- Product version: 0.1
- Product type: IFF PICTURE VIEWER
- Author: Aric Caley (Fish Disk 274)
- Status: freeware
- Port name:
- Number of commands:
- Executes scripts by:
- Notes: Slideshow for IFF pictures
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- Product name: Snap
- Product version: 1.62
- Product type: TEXT/GRAPHICS CUT AND PASTE
- Author: Mikael Karlsson
- Status: shareware
- Port name: SNAP
- Number of commands: 2
- Executes scripts by: External control only
- Notes:
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- Product name: SpeakerSim
- Product version: 2.1
- Product type: CAD, LOUDSPEAKER DESIGN
- Author: dissidents
- Status: commercial
- Port name:
- Number of commands:
- Executes scripts by:
- Notes:
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- Product name: SQLdb
- Product version: latest ALPHA released Feb 3, 1992
- Product type: DATABASE
- Author: Kyle Saunders
- Status: shareware
- Port name: SQLserver
- Number of commands: 2
- Executes scripts by: External control only.
- Notes:
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- Product name: SRI (SAS/C Rexx Interface)
- Product version: 1.00
- Product type: PROGRAMMING SUPPORT
- Author: Matthias Scheler, Michael Illgner
- Status: freeware
- Port name:
- Number of commands:
- Executes scripts by:
- Notes: Interface SAS/C 5.10a (or newer) with text editor
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- Product name: Stopwatch
- Product version: 3.0S
- Product type: TIMING
- Author: Christian Danner (Fish Disk 466)
- Status: freeware
- Port name:
- Number of commands:
- Executes scripts by:
- Notes: Stopwatch timer with 1 millisecond precision
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- Product name: SuperBase Professional 4
- Product version:
- Product type: DATABASE
- Author: Precision Software
- Status: commercial
- Port name: SBpro4
- Number of commands: 250+
- Executes scripts by: Invoking them from within DML programs
- Notes: DML = internal Database Management Language
-
- Product name: SuperPlan
- Product version:
- Product type: BUSINESS
- Author: Precision Software
- Status: commercial
- Port name: SpRexx
- Number of commands: 170+
- Executes scripts by: External control only
- Notes:
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- Product name: Term
- Product version: 1.9c
- Product type: TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- Author: Olaf `Olsen' Barthel (Fish Disk 589)
- Status: giftware
- Port name:
- Number of commands:
- Executes scripts by:
- Notes: Requires Workbench 2.0.
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- Product name: TermII
- Product version: 1.1
- Product type: TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- Author: Eric Gontier (Fish Disk 576)
- Status: freeware
- Port name:
- Number of commands:
- Executes scripts by:
- Notes: Requires Workbench 2.0.
-
- Product name: TeXt Plus Professional
- Product version: 4.0
- Product type: TEX WORD PROCESSOR
- Author: Martin Steppler
- Status: shareware
- Port name: TextPlus
- Number of commands: 111
- Executes scripts by: Macro name, menu, function keys
- Notes: A front-end for TeX. Requires OS 2.04 or higher,
- 2 MB RAM, 10 MB hard disk space, PasTeX 1.3.
-
- Product name: Textra
- Product version: 1.12
- Product type: TEXT EDITOR
- Author: Mike Haas, Delta Research
- Status: shareware
- Port name: TEXTRA
- Number of commands: 40
- Executes scripts by: gadgets, function keys
- Notes: Earlier freeware version included with JForth
- Professional.
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- Product name: Thinker
- Product version: 2.1.4
- Product type: HYPERTEXT
- Author: Poor Person Software
- Status: commercial
- Port name:
- Number of commands:
- Executes scripts by:
- Notes:
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- Product name: Title Page
- Product version:
- Product type: VIDEO
- Author: Eschalon Development
- Status: commercial
- Port name:
- Number of commands: 65+
- Executes scripts by: "full support"
- Notes: Video titling
-
- Product name: TKEd
- Product version: 1.00a
- Product type: TEXT EDITOR
- Author: Tom Kroener (Fish Disk 620)
- Status: shareware
- Port name: TKEd.1, TKEd.2, TKEd.3, ...
- Number of commands: 79
- Executes scripts by: menu, function keys, file requester, macros
- Notes:
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- Product name: TLog
- Product version: 2.01
- Product type: PHYSICAL FITNESS
- Author: Ed Bacon
- Status: shareware
- Port name:
- Number of commands:
- Executes scripts by:
- Notes: Daily record for athletic training.
-
- Product name: Transporter
- Product version: 1.0+
- Product type: ANIMATION & VIDEO CONTROL
- Author: Jeff White
- Status: commercial
- Port name:
- Number of commands:
- Executes scripts by: menu, gadget
- Notes: Uses ARexx to control 24-bit display boards
- and single-frame VCR controllers for single-framing
- animations to video tape.
-
- Product name: Treewalk
- Product version: 1
- Product type: TREE TRAVERSAL
- Author: Mike Meyer
- Status: freeware
- Port name: (not applicable)
- Number of commands: uncountable
- Executes scripts by: invoking them in filter expressions
- Notes: Ports are private to the macro they are assigned to.
-
- Product name: TRexx
- Product version:
- Product type: BUILD AREXX SCRIPTS FOR VIDEO TOASTER SWITCHER
- Author:
- Status: commerical
- Port name:
- Number of commands:
- Executes scripts by:
- Notes:
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- Product name: Turbo Text
- Product version:
- Product type: TEXT EDITOR
- Author: Oxxi (Martin Taillefer)
- Status: commercial
- Port name: TURBOTEXT (main), TURBOTEXT.1, TURBOTEXT.2, ...
- Number of commands: 140+
- Executes scripts by: Any event
- Notes: Uses ARexx as internal scripting language
-
- Product name: UEdit
- Product version: 2.6h
- Product type: TEXT EDITOR
- Author: Rick Stiles
- Status: shareware
- Port name: URexx
- Number of commands: Unlimited
- Executes scripts by: Any event
- Notes:
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- Product name: VD 2001
- Product version:
- Product type: VIDEO DIGITIZER/FRAMEBUFFER
- Author: Frank Kegel-Electronic
- Status: commercial
- Port name:
- Number of commands:
- Executes scripts by:
- Notes: 24-bit
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- Product Name: Vertex
- Product Version: 1.31.1
- Product Type: 3D OBJECT EDITOR/CONVERTER
- Author: Alexander D. Deburie (ad99s461@sycom.mi.org)
- Status: shareware (non-saving demos available)
- Port Name: VERTEX1
- Number of Commands: 30+
- Script Control: External control only.
- Notes: Fully automates object conversions/modifications.
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- Product name: vhlogger
- Product version: 1.1
- Product type: HAM RADIO LOGGING PROGRAM
- Author: Vincent Herried (vjh21@cas.org)
- Status: shareware (with ARexx), freeware (no ARexx)
- Port name: vhlogger
- Number of commands: 8
- Executes scripts by: external control only
- Notes: Uses btree, has intuition interface.
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- Product name: Video-Link
- Product version:
- Product type: CONTROL LASER DISC PLAYERS AND VCR'S
- Author: Knowledge Media
- Status: commercial
- Port name:
- Number of commands:
- Executes scripts by:
- Notes:
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- Product name: Virus_Checker
- Product version: 5.23 & up
- Product type: VIRUS DETECTION
- Author: John Veldthuis
- Status: Freely distributable
- Port name: Virus_Checker
- Number of commands: 8
- Executes scripts by: External control only
- Notes: Upgrading going on all the time.
-
- Product name: VLT
- Product version: Current: 5.045, soon: 5.4xx
- Product type: TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- Author: Willy Langeveld, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- Status: Copyrighted but freely distributable
- Port name: May be set by user. Default is VLT.
- Number of commands: Approximately 200 (commands + subcommands)
- Executes scripts by: menu, gadgets, any key, mouse
- Notes:
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- Product name: VT100
- Product version: 2.9
- Product type: TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- Author: David Wecker, Tony Sumrall
- Status: Public domain
- Port name: VT100-<serial device>-<serial unit number>
- Number of commands: 61
- Executes scripts by: file name, VT100 script
- Notes:
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- Product name: Welmat
- Product version: 0.48
- Product type: ?
- Author: Russell McOrmond, Michael Richardson, Various
- Status: GNU Public License "CopyLeft"
- Port name: WELMAT
- Number of commands: Expanding - Full internal language accessable.
- Executes scripts by: External control only. Future: any event.
- Notes: 0.47 requires Wctl. 0.48+ requires AmigaDOS 2.04.
- Supports rexxflow.library. (xferq.library later.)
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- Product name: Who! What! When! Where!
- Product version:
- Product type: PERSONAL SCHEDULING
- Author: Blue Ribbon Soundworks Ltd.
- Status: commercial
- Port name:
- Number of commands:
- Executes scripts by:
- Notes: Organizer/calendar/appointment book
-
- Product name: WShell
- Product version: 2.0
- Product type: COMMAND LINE INTERFACE SHELL
- Author: William Hawes, Wishful Thinking Development Corp.
- Status: commercial
- Port name: WSH_nnn, where nnn is the CLI number
- Number of commands: 0 (invokes scripts)
- Executes scripts by: file name, command line
- Notes: ARexx is WShell's native language.
-
- Product name: XED
- Product version: 1.0
- Product type: ?
- Author: HGD Research Software GmbH
- Status: commercial
- Port name: xed_rexx, xed_rexx2, xed_rexx3, ...
- Number of commands: 374
- Executes scripts by: menu, gadgets, any key, mouse
- Notes: XED is fully controllable/configurable via ARexx.
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- Product name: XLispStat
- Product version: 2.1
- Product type: STATISTICAL
- Author: David Betz et. al. (Fish Disk 385-386)
- Status: freeware
- Port name:
- Number of commands:
- Executes scripts by:
- Notes: Needs 68020 (or higher) + floating point coprocessor
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- Product name: Xl
- Product version: Demo version
- Product type: CEL ANIMATION GENERATOR
- Author: (Demo version on Fish Disk 516)
- Status: commerical? (Demo version is freeware.)
- Port name:
- Number of commands: "large"
- Executes scripts by:
- Notes: Requires req.library (Fox/Dawson)
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- PART 2: COLLECTIONS OF AREXX SCRIPTS
- =============================================================================
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- Product name: Burf (BackUp ReFresher)
- Product version: 1.00
- Product type: HARD DISK BACKUP
- Author: Michael Tanzer
- Status: freeware
- Port name: (not applicable)
- Number of commands: (not applicable)
- Executes scripts by: (not applicable)
- Notes: Used for incremental backups
-
- Product name: DevKit
- Product version:
- Product type: SCRIPTS FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
- Author: Peter Cherna (Fish Disk 297)
- Status: freeware
- Port name: (not applicable)
- Number of commands: (not applicable)
- Executes scripts by: (not applicable)
- Notes:
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- Product name: DMD
- Product version: 2.01
- Product type: TEXT EDITOR MACROS
- Author: Fergus Duniho
- Status: tradeware
- Port name: (not applicable)
- Number of commands: (not applicable)
- Executes scripts by: any event
- Notes: Macros for DME text editor, making it more powerful
- and user-friendly. See entry for DME.
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- Product name: Notify
- Product version: 1.01
- Product type: PROGRAM SCHEDULING
- Author: Michael Tanzer (Fish Disk 603)
- Status: freeware
- Port name:
- Number of commands:
- Executes scripts by:
- Notes: Automatically run programs at certain dates/times.
-
- Product name: TeXify
- Product version: 1.10e
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