rexx(Restructured Extended Executor), OS/2 REXX Question (Object REXX Question Inside)

OS/2 REXX Question (Object REXX Question Inside)

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Darryl Teichroe #1 / 4	OS/2 REXX Question (Object REXX Question Inside) Quote: >>Is there a way to get drive type info using OS/2 REXX? >>Specifically, I'd like to be able to detect the IFS type of the >>partition. (FAT, HPFS, CDFS, etc) >In the upcoming Object Rexx you have a new sysutil-function named: > >---SysFileSystemType(drive)---->< > Returns the name of the file system used for a drive. > If the drive is not accessible, returns a null string (''). Rony, Can you enlighten me to as what Object REXX is? I've seen someting about it on an IBM web page, but all that was available there was a Win95(?) release for Object REXX. Sheesh, talk about standing behind their own products! Can I get a beta of Object REXX? Will it be available to all OS/2 users, or will I have to upgrade from Warp to v4.0? Will it be free or what? Thanks, Darryl Teichroeb [TEAM OS/2]
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 03:00:00 GMT

Rony.Flatsc.. #2 / 4	OS/2 REXX Question (Object REXX Question Inside) .. cut ... -Rony, - -Can you enlighten me to as what Object REXX is? I've seen someting about it -on an IBM web page, but all that was available there was a Win95(?) release -for Object REXX. Sheesh, talk about standing behind their own products! - -Can I get a beta of Object REXX? Will it be available to all OS/2 users, -or will I have to upgrade from Warp to v4.0? Will it be free or what? Darryl, Object Rexx has been available in beta-form on the DevCon-CDs ("Developer Connection", quarterly set of CD-ROMs, annual subscription fee appr. USD 200) for almost two years. It became (quietly) available for OS/2 Warp together with the OpenDoc runtime for OS/2 at the beginning of this year. Later on (around May) beta versions for Win95/NT became available for free download. Object Rexx has become available on a wide scale with Merlin. By default Merlin installs the classic Rexx interpreter from which you can switch to Object Rexx by issuing SWITCHRX (and go back to the classic interpreter). The reasoning given, as posted on this group, was that there were some pre-tokenized classic Rexx programs found for which no source was available. As Object Rexx uses an entirely different tokenizing image those old pre-tokenized Rexx programs won't run (unless, the source of those classic pre-tokenized Rexx programs became available). As to whether IBM intends to give the Warp users a free downloadable version of Object Rexx (as shipped with Merlin), I don't know, you would have to ask IBM managers responsible for the product. (For the cause of Object Rexx this would be an important action to be undertaken, IMHO.) Hope that helps a little. Regards, ---rony
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 03:00:00 GMT

huu #3 / 4	OS/2 REXX Question (Object REXX Question Inside) Quote: >>>Is there a way to get drive type info using OS/2 REXX? >>>Specifically, I'd like to be able to detect the IFS type of the >>>partition. (FAT, HPFS, CDFS, etc) >>In the upcoming Object Rexx you have a new sysutil-function named: >> >---SysFileSystemType(drive)---->< >> Returns the name of the file system used for a drive. >> If the drive is not accessible, returns a null string (''). >Rony, >Can you enlighten me to as what Object REXX is? I've seen someting about it >on an IBM web page, but all that was available there was a Win95(?) release >for Object REXX. Sheesh, talk about standing behind their own products! It's REXX with Smalltalk-like extentions. The major difference with old REXX is that it parses the entier source at once, and thus breaks existing programs with bugs in dead code sections. Quote: >Can I get a beta of Object REXX? Will it be available to all OS/2 users, >or will I have to upgrade from Warp to v4.0? Will it be free or what? The beta shipped for some time now on Developers Connection CDs. Even if you haven't a subscription, you could have got it with the OpenDoc toolkit last spring, either by downloading it from the web, or by letting IBM mail you the DevCon9 Special Edition CDs for free. Sheesh, talk about standing behind their own products! Quote: >Darryl Teichroeb [TEAM OS/2] Team clueless again? Don't you guys have web browsers? Just once, try to use a search engine before posting rubbish... -- Note: I reserve the right to publish or return unsolicited, harassing or annoying (e-)mail. /hy:X/ PGP keyID: DF28F4C1 "All are strange but thee and me; but sometimes thee acts funny." - Chuck Blake
Mon, 22 Mar 1999 03:00:00 GMT

C. Vissenbe #4 / 4	OS/2 REXX Question (Object REXX Question Inside) <<cut>> Quote: > The beta shipped for some time now on Developers Connection CDs. Even > if you haven't a subscription, you could have got it with the OpenDoc > toolkit last spring, either by downloading it from the web, or by > letting IBM mail you the DevCon9 Special Edition CDs for free. Sheesh, > talk about standing behind their own products! <<cut>> Fine, but all these are betas. I have all those CD's. The question is: is the FINAL Object-Rexx, as shipped with Merlin, also available for OS/2 Warp 3.0? Your post doesn't answer this question, nor does the IBM Object Rexx home page. That promenently advertises Windows Object-Rexx, and is not at all helpful about finding out the status of the OS/2 version. It's probably downloadable somewhere, but is is more work to find it. --- Con Vissenberg \| GCS d-- H- s g- p?>1 a w+ v C+ US+$ I don't speak for Philips. \| Y+ t !5 !j R G? tv b+ !D B? e++ \| u+ h---- f r+++ n+ z+++
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 03:00:00 GMT

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