Greetings ooRexx developers, I will allow ooRexx to speak for itself...
(uiserver):u40009095:~ > which rexx /kunden/homepages/35/d157794216/htdocs/opt/oorexx/bin/rexx (uiserver):u40009095:~ > rexx -v Open Object Rexx Version 4.1.2 Build date: Apr 20 2013 Addressing Mode: 32 Copyright (c) IBM Corporation 1995, 2004. Copyright (c) RexxLA 2005-2012. 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 or at http://www.oorexx.org/license.html (uiserver):u40009095:~ > rexxtry.rex REXX-ooRexx_4.1.2(MT) 6.03 20 Apr 2013 rexxtry.rex lets you interactively try REXX statements. Each string is executed when you hit Enter. Enter 'call tell' for a description of the features. Go on - try a few... Enter 'exit' to end. say 'Yes, it works! Thank you, Mark! :-)' Yes, it works! Thank you, Mark! :-) ............................................... rexxtry.rex on LINUX exit Customized ooRexx source code: // For testing purposes comment out the following line to force RXAPI to // run as a foreground process. #undef RUN_AS_DAEMON #ifdef RUN_AS_DAEMON #define OOREXX_PIDFILE "/var/run/ooRexx.pid" bool run_as_daemon = true; #else #define OOREXX_PIDFILE "/kunden/homepages/35/d157794216/htdocs/opt/oorexx/var/run/ooRexx.pid" bool run_as_daemon = true; #endif Installation steps as follows: Version: ooRexx-4.1.2.source.tar.gz % ./configure --disable-static --prefix=/kunden/homepages/35/d157794216/htdocs/opt/oorexx % make % make install mkdir ~/opt/oorexx/var mkdir ~/opt/oorexx/var/run Symlinks for ooRexx 4.1.2 as follows: Add a symlink to support libraries compiled against the old ORexx 2.x from IBM ~/opt/oorexx/lib/ooRexx >ln -s librexxapi.so.4.0.4 librexxapi.so.2 Add rexxtry.rex support from the command line ~/opt/oorexx/bin > ln -s ../share/ooRexx/rexxtry.rex rexxtry.rex And put the proper shebang in that target file Thank you SSSSOOO much, Mark! The combined input from everyone is very appreciated. Sincerely, -- Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel