No, I'm not saying it is not possible, I'm saying that the runtime he's
referring to does not exist. The IBM Object Rexx product had a runtime
environment that would only run programs that had been translated with
rexxc. You could not develop and run new Rexx programs using that version.
Since the IBM product was a paid program, you could develop and distribute
programs to others using the limited runtime without them needing to
purchase the Object Rexx product. You still needed to install the runtime
on each machine where you wanted to run the application, but there was no
additional charge required to do so. Open Object Rexx does not have a
separate limited runtime, we just have the single interpreter version.
Rick
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Staffan Tylen <staffan.ty...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Bertram, Rick is not saying that it's not possible. I'm packaging rexx
> code and oorexx components in one deliverable and make sure that the PATH
> and REXX_PATH environment variables is set up temporarily before invoking
> rexx.exe or rexxhide.exe. This can be done in a .bat file for example.
>
> Staffan
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> No, we no longer support the separate runtime environment that the IBM
>> version did. That runtime still required an install and was really a
>> licensing issue rather than a technical solution. since ooRexx is now free
>> and open-source, there's no point in trying to maintain the limited
>> interpreter runtime any more.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Bertram Moshier <
>> bertrammosh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Way back when, I purchased the IBM ooREXX, as I was writing code for
>>> employers who did NOT want to install ooREXX on everyone's machine, but did
>>> want them to run applications I wrote in REXX. I am again at the same
>>> crossroads, but for a slightly different reason.
>>>
>>> As a Final Fantasy XI player (it's a MMORPG), I would like to write for
>>> various players an application using ooREXX to summaries their game play
>>> using the logs created by Windower 4.0. At the same I can't expect them to
>>> install ooREXX; yes, it would be wonderful for them to instal and use
>>> ooREXX, but I doubt they all would and thus a big con for the application
>>> would exist.
>>>
>>> Thus I'm asking ... Is it possible to write an ooREXX program for
>>> someone on Windows (at least) and not require them to install ooREXX (e.g.
>>> a runtime).
>>>
>>> Also, in a previous posting, I asked a question about reading a file
>>> open by another application for writing. The Windows type and copy see the
>>> data, but the code I included says the file is empty and when I forced it
>>> to read the line, they were null (e.g. lenght(linein(filename)) = 0)
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Bert.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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