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Date: 29 Jun 88 00:02:16 GMT
Subject: Re: ARexx Questions
From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
in article <2119@cadovax.UUCP>, kaz@cadovax.UUCP (Kerry Zimmerman) says:
> Keywords: ARexx
> After reading so many glowing words about ARexx here on the net...
> Why would I want to write a script in ARexx instead of using a CLI script
> or a Shell script (using Matt's Shell)?
I don't recall the examples on the ARexx disk offhand. But there are lots
of things you can't do easily, or possibly at all, using the CLI script
language, or probably Matt's shell language (tough I haven't used it
myself). One of the features I like the most about the ARexx language
is that it supports recursive subroutines, like any REAL computer
language.
Consider, for a moment, this problem. I've got gobs of stuff on my
hard disk, all kinds of directories filled with Usenet downloads. I
like to transfer whole directories over to floppy disks. I waste lots
of time if I try to transfer a directory and find out that it won't
fit on the space remaining on a floppy. So I want a function that'll
tell me the size, in blocks, of a directory tree.
Here's an ARexx solution, written in about 10 minutes.