Hi, What's the best way to convert a large Rexx program to NetRexx. Any tools available ? Thanks, Klaas ...
Klaas L. Wijchman
klw@...
Dec 7, 2000 10:02 am
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... Please, forgive my snide remarks.... The best conversion tools are... HANDS and EYES... -- ... ...
Jerry McBride
mcbrides@...
Dec 8, 2000 3:19 am
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... May be, but if these are the only tools, you forgot the third one: time. And this is mostly not available. So if there is no converter program, I would...
Herbert Szumovski
hszumovs@...
Dec 8, 2000 9:39 am
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Thanks for all your thoughts, and in the meantime I indeed started from scratch with the Rexxfile on the sideline, just to remind me of all the functionality...
Klaas L. Wijchman
klw@...
Dec 8, 2000 11:55 am
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I believe Thomas Schneider (Thomas.Schneider@...) was working on a Rexx -> NetRexx translator. Thanks Satguru ... Hi, What's the best way to convert...
Satguru Srivastava
SatguruSrivastava@...
Dec 8, 2000 3:46 pm
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Hello Klaas, sorry for the late reply, but I have been out of the office the past 2 days. I have indeed developped a Rexx to NetRexx converter. It currently...
Thomas.Schneider@...
Dec 8, 2000 4:20 pm
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... Now, that's a nice offer if I ever heard one. Your're a nice guy, Thomas. -- ... ...
Jerry McBride
mcbrides@...
Dec 8, 2000 11:43 pm
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... True enough. But... "object oriented" be damned until you're ready to implement that later one. If you've got a an old rexx script that has to be ported, ...
Jerry McBride
mcbrides@...
Dec 8, 2000 11:58 pm
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Hello Simon, the current converter IS running both on CMS as well as under OBJECT REXX. But as the parsing/conversion algorithms are very hughe (in terms of...
Thomas.Schneider@...
Dec 9, 2000 6:37 pm
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Does anyone of you have the current e-mail address of Max Marsiglietti, the Author of NRIO ? I would like to use his routines in my Rexx to NetRexx ...
Thomas.Schneider@...
Dec 19, 2000 12:16 pm
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Max is alive and well, reading this group. Re: NRIO. Go ahead and use it, you don't owe me anything (it's freeware). I have put the sources on Dion's site...
maxmars@...
Dec 19, 2000 5:08 pm
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HI everyone Does anybody know how to enter Java comipler options thru the NetRexx Compiler Thanks in advance ...
katsarosn@...
Jan 10, 2001 9:39 am
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Hi, I don't think you can. The best way to do this would be to compile netrexx with the keep option. and then compile the java file so created with the javac...
Satguru Srivastava
SatguruSrivastava@...
Jan 12, 2001 7:56 pm
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Smörk
smoerk@...
Feb 17, 2001 2:16 pm
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I've experienced the same problems as described on the Netrexx-Homepage. I've found out that it has something to do with the many java.exe versions, that Sun's...
Andreas Zieritz
zieritz@...
Feb 21, 2001 2:11 pm
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I'm an person with advanced experience in classic rexx trying to bootstrap into the world of oo programming, netrexx and its benefits. As a first project I'd...
Tim Stephen
stephen@...
Feb 21, 2001 3:32 pm
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Hello MIke, I am happy to report that I did now succeed to boots-trap my REXX --> NetRexx converter from CMS compiled REXX to NetRexx. As a matter of fact, I...
Thomas.Schneider@...
Feb 28, 2001 8:29 pm
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Hi Marshall, The reason it worked was because you were running jEdit using the JVM (java.exe) from the c:\program file\JavaSoft directory. When you do this the...
Satguru P. Srivastava
srivastava.satguru@...
Mar 2, 2001 5:33 am
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Registration for the 2001 Rexx Symposium is now open. Why not attend and share your NetRexx experiences with the Rexx community? The symposium runs from 30...
MFC@...
Mar 11, 2001 1:48 pm
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Is jEdit now majority editor of choice? There have been plugs for free THE and pay-for Kedit (which I like) and I might expect at least one vote for LPEX...
Roy.Gardiner@...
Mar 12, 2001 5:35 pm
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I use NetBeans with a NetRexx module for compilation that I've written. No colour syntax highlighting yet though. -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Work:...
dion@...
Mar 13, 2001 4:46 am
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Hello Mike, it would be nice if 'ask' would allow an optional 'prompt string' as a parameter, for example ... loop forever file=ask('please enter a filename...
Thomas.Schneider@...
Mar 15, 2001 12:12 pm
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Yes. Would be a nice feature. Thanks Satguru ... From: <Thomas.Schneider@...> To: <mfc@...> Cc: <ibm-netrexx@...> Sent: Thursday,...
Satguru P. Srivastava
srivastava.satguru@...
Mar 16, 2001 1:55 am
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Hi, I have uploaded a new version (0.03) of the jEdit NetRexx plugin to my site at http://sites.netscape.net/ssatguru. The new version includes the netrexx...
Satguru P. Srivastava
srivastava.satguru@...
Mar 16, 2001 5:34 am
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... Well, you can already define this simple function: method ask(label) static say label'\-' return ask It will do what you ask for. (Granted, you have to...
Martin Lafaix
lafaix@...
Mar 16, 2001 12:38 pm
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Hi, Thanks to Patric Bechtel I just found out that the I had bundled a slightly older version of the NetRexx Compiler with the new 0.03 version of the...
Satguru P. Srivastava
srivastava.satguru@...
Mar 17, 2001 5:30 am
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Couple of points regrading 'ask' 1) One can define ones own 'ask()' method but then that tends to clutter up the code without adding much value to the code. 2)...
Satguru P. Srivastava
srivastava.satguru@...
Mar 17, 2001 5:40 pm
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I made 'ask' a special name to ease migration from the Rexx 'pull'. For example, one might write: say 'Please enter two numbers: \-' parse ask number1...
MFC@...
Mar 18, 2001 8:46 pm
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Yes I see that. How about leaving 'ask' as it is but have a RexxIO.Ask(prompt=Rexx) method. Thus if somebody wanted to use 'ask' as a function/method he could...
Satguru P. Srivastava
srivastava.satguru@...
Mar 19, 2001 6:03 am
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Well, I still have reservations about mixing output and input in same function. And next someone will want a choice of output stream for the prompt......