On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 12:37 PM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote:
> I could ~really~ wish Regina, or at least some version of REXX, was more > widespread on PCs. Some years ago I overheard my boss talking on the phone > about a problem which I then solved for him using Regina. (It involved > parsing several megs of firewall logs looking for particular types of > errors; the REXX solution took seconds instead of a couple hours.) But for > the most part, I figure whatever solutions I write for clients should use > tools they already have at hand: VBA for Excel, for instance, REXX for the > mainframe and so on. If they have to acquire a new and let's not forget > untrusted tool even to get started on the solution, they're much less > likely to benefit from it. > > For the same reason I have long left unsatisfied my ardent desire to try > out ooREXX. I may use it for my own solutions, but most of my work is done > for others...which after all is as it should be. Sigh. > This is why I wish IBM would write a solution: so that other could use it pretty much anywhere without needing to get permission to install something from Github or CBTTAPE, which is unlikely. The only way to get ooREXX onto most PCs is to show Microsoft how it would make them tons of money. That seems to be _all_ that they care about, like most capitalistic companies, I guess. But M$, like most vendors, have NIH syndrome really bad. "Only we really know what & how to do anything!" > > --- > Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 > > /* When their love was strong they could sleep on the edge of a sword, but > now when they have forgotten, a bed sixty feet across is not sufficient. > -Rab Akiva, quoted in _The Source_ by James Michener */ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Monday, March 16, 2020 12:31 > > Dammit! Regina gets it right. Example: > 532 $ regina /dev/fd/3 3<<endrexx > > trace R > > parse version . > > endrexx > 2 *-* parse version . > >.> "REXX-Regina_3.9.1(MT) 5.00 5 Apr 2015" > 533 $ > > (I've used this to embed Rexx in a shell script.) > > --- On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:57:19 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >Likewise allowing a statement as an argument. Of course, much of what you > want you can do with redirection without having to touch the code ("When > the only tool you have is a pipe, everything looks like a filter."). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
