On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:14:51 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote:
>For CLIST WRITENR why not use the REXX SAY and then PULL ?
>
I don't believe that's equivalent. Are you conflating WRITENR and WTOR?
But the Rexx analogue of WRITENR is CHAROUT().
On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:02:13 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote:
> ...
>CLIST can interact with some external programs interactively. For example,
>in REXX I have to put together an entire FTP session and hope it works;
>
Is that called "modal" interaction? Likewise, CMS EXEC has such behavior; CMS
Rexx lacks it. At times, I have written a dual-path EXEC which does
ADDRESS ISRREDIT 'MACRO (X)'
... and invokes itself recursively as an Edit profile on success.
-- gil
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