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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.
-