On 2023-01-03 04:25:33 Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for the comments, information and ideas. Enclosed please
> find the next iteration of that little script. Invoking it with
> "getOoRexxDocs.rex ?" yields the refurbished (hopefully clearer) usage
> text:
>
>     getOoRexxDocs.rex [directory [needle]]
>
>                        a utility to download the ooRexx documentation from
> SourceForge and save them in a subdirectory "docs.V" of the current
> directory where "V" is the specified version (e.g. "5.0.0")
>
>            no argument ... download all files from the directory carrying
> the highest version number
>
>            ? or -h     ... show this usage information
>
>            directory   ... the SourceForge documentation directory to
> download from, usually named after the ooRexx version (e.g. "4.2.0",
> "5.0.0", "5.1.0beta")
>
>            needle      ... only downloads files from the SourceForge
> directory which contain the (caseless) needle in their names (e.g.
> "-html.zip", ".pdf", "ref")
>
>     N.B.: This program uses "curl" on all platforms. You can find more
> information on the Internet or<https://curl.se>
> and<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL>.

[snip]

> Any feedback, ideas?
>
> ---rony

        I'm curious as to where you obtained the shortcut .resources syntax 
used in the usage
handler in this program?  It is simply
|    say .resources~usage
but the Language Reference only shows
|   say .resources[name]~makeString
which is harder to remember.

Leslie
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