This is great info, thank you Mike, and especially thank you Simon!
Would there be a chance to get the Oryx logo somehow? Having tried in the past years a few times, I
was never able to get a hold of it.
Simon, would you have a copy of the Oryx logo that you could share by any chance? If not, could you
please ask Dave Renshaw? It would be nice if we could use it for the ooRexx project!
Ad file extensions: yes, having two may be irritating, however we already have more than two file
extensions: .rex, .cls, .orx, .rexp, ... They are used for file associations in operating systems
like Windows, macOS, Linuxes, associating files with these extensions with oorexx, actually,
rexx.exe/rexx which clashes with other Rexx interpreters which use rexx.exe as their launcher. The
idea of adding ".oryx" to this set was to hint at the original name (denoting an elegant animal, as
many other programming languages would also use an animal logo). Having the Oryx logo would allow to
associate it in addition with the operating systems such that the explorer/finder programs would use
the logo when listing ooRexx files (this of course would need an agreement among the ooRexx
developer community). Personally, I would like to see the Oryx logo at lest on the documentation
(but again, this would need an agreement among the ooRexx developer community)
---rony
On 19.06.2026 21:12, Mike Cowlishaw wrote:
*From:*Simon Nash <[email protected]>
*Sent:* 15 June 2026 21:54
*To:* Mike Cowlishaw <[email protected]>; 'Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List'
<[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad ooRexx file types ...
Thanks, Mike!
The name Oryx was chosen by Ian Brackenbury, the manager who recruited me to work on the project.
The lovely Oryx logo was created by Dave Renshaw. I did my best to see the Oryx name retained but
as the project approached product status, the influence of corporate naming standards led to the
choice of the name OREXX (Object REXX) which later became OOREXX (Open Object REXX).
I think the extension .orx is ideal because it combines elements of all the above names. I think
it's better to have one extension rather than a choice of two which is likely to lead to confusion.
Best regards,
Simon
On 15/06/2026 17:22, Mike Cowlishaw wrote:
Copying this to Simon Nash .. I believe it was he that came up with the name
'Oryx'?
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Rony G. Flatscher<[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: 15 June 2026 15:08
To: Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List
<[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [Oorexx-devel] Ad ooRexx file types ...
In a discussion a couple of weeks ago in the context of cREXX it was
proposed that each Rexx language would use a proper file extension, if the
contained code can only be run by that language, hence ".crexx". In that
discussion, it also became clear that a proper extension for ooRexx programs
should be used if the program could only be executed by ooRexx.
We already have an extension ".orx" that we could use (associated with the
operating system during installation), hence suggesting to use that
extension for any new Rexx programs that can only be run by ooRexx.
---
In this context, another idea, suggestion: if not mistaken, one of the
project names at IBM when developing "Object REXX" was "oryx". There used to
be an oryx logo on the OS/2 developer CDs, if I recall correctly. (Back
then, quite a few programming languages would use an animal as their logo.)
Nowadays, not being confined to FAT 8.3 file names anymore, how about
supporting an optional filetype named ".oryx"? Any comments?
---rony
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