> > OK, but limit that to genuinely Windows-specific classes (things that 
cannot
> > be implemented on other operating systems by definition).
> 
> Yes, that was the idea. These classes are implemented as external
> packages, where the implementation is currently deeply tied to
> Windows. The WindowsEventLog is one that by definition would not be
> implemented on another platform.  And some others.
> 
> There are a couple, like WindowObject and MenuObject that could be
> implemented on other platforms. But, even then, I think they would
> still be better off documented in a separate document. Like rxftp and
> rxmath.
> 
> > There's probably
> > some good things there that are currently only on the Windows platform
> > because they were easy to implement there -- but would be really nice 
to
> > have on other platforms.
> >
> > (Sysini comes to mind, I've re-implemented this three times now...)
> 
> Most of those, I think are in RexxUtil.  SysFileMove is the one that
> comes to my mind.

Sounds good.  Yes, move, copy, and rename (preferably atomic name-swap of 
two files) would be nice to have ... all my Windows + Linux code has to 
dual-path these at present.

Mike





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