Would someone explain what B2H is, and where it can be retrieved?  Might
make a good link for you-know-where.

Mark Post

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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Ross Patterson
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:34 PM
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Subject: Re: Regina/rexx SOCKET


At 11:25 12/05/2002 -0500, Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission wrote:
>I tried to run B2H EXEC from the VM Download page on Windows using Regina.
>It bombed. Switched to Object REXX, it worked perfectly.

B2H is a great piece of software, and Gary Richtmeyer put a lot of effort
into getting it to work correctly on a wide variety of platforms.  In order
to do that, B2H discovers what system it's running on and tries to guess
which Rexx implementation is in use, and adapts accordingly.  That
*shouldn't* be necessary (well, not the *implementation* adaptation
anyway), but there are some odd variants out there.

I'm actually quite impressed with Regina - it has a strong focus on
compliance and compatibility, and allows you to specify which other
implementation to be compatible with (via an OPTIONS statement).  I can't
point to any faults, but I haven't run anything as large as B2H (it's huge).

Ross Patterson

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