What about the rxapi service?  Won't that require somesort of admin  
auth?

Bruce
On Aug 24, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Mark Miesfeld wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Mark Miesfeld <miesf...@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Walter Pachl <pa...@chello.at>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sitting at my office computer w/o Admin rights I dearly miss ooRexx.
>>> Is it possible to use it as portable app without installing it?
>>> Would be nice!
>>
>> Walter, it is certainly possible on Windows.
>
> Here is a quick transcript of the procedure:
>
> On my home computer where I already have ooRexx installed:
>
> C:\home\Interpreters\Rexx>zip -X9r my_ooRexx ooRexx
>  adding: ooRexx/ (stored 0%)
>  adding: ooRexx/api/ (stored 0%)
>  adding: ooRexx/api/oorexxapi.h (deflated 92%)
> ...
>
> Move the zip file to my office computer where there is no ooRexx  
> installed:
>
> C:\office.work>rexx -v
> 'rexx' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
> C:\office.work>copy \file.transfer\my_ooRexx.zip .
>        1 file(s) copied.
>
> C:\office.work>unzip my_ooRexx.zip
> Archive:  my_ooRexx.zip
>   creating: ooRexx/
>   creating: ooRexx/api/
>  inflating: ooRexx/api/oorexxapi.h
> ...
> C:\office.work>dir
> Volume in drive C has no label.
> Volume Serial Number is 4C7E-4254
>
> Directory of C:\office.work
>
> 08/24/2010  11:14 AM    <DIR>          .
> 08/24/2010  11:14 AM    <DIR>          ..
> 08/23/2010  08:13 AM    <DIR>          ooRexx
> 08/24/2010  11:09 AM         4,784,884 my_ooRexx.zip
>               1 File(s)      4,784,884 bytes
>               3 Dir(s)  67,166,003,200 bytes free
>
> C:\office.work>set PATH=C:\office.work\ooRexx;%PATH%
>
> C:\office.work>rexx -v
> Open Object Rexx Version 4.1.0 - Internal Test Version
> Build date: Aug 23 2010
> Addressing Mode: 32
>
> Copyright (c) IBM Corporation 1995, 2004.
> Copyright (c) RexxLA 2005-2009.
> All Rights Reserved.
> This program and the accompanying materials
> are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
> which accompanies this distribution.
> http://www.oorexx.org/license.html
>
> C:\office.work>cd ooRexx\samples
> C:\office.work\ooRexx\samples>factor.rex
> -- Nothing happened, got a popup saying Windows can not open this  
> file.
>
>
> C:\office.work\ooRexx\samples>rexx factor.rex
> Enter a number
> 12
> 12 factorial is 479001600
>
> C:\office.work\ooRexx\samples>
>
> You could do more to set up things and use some, but not all, of the
> features added by a regular install.  I just don't have the time to
> spell things out.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>
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