I feel that I overstated the case, in that I do believe they are a part of Rexx, in that they are supported in a particular Rexx implementation. There are always going to be locally implemented features that are not universally available in every implementation of the language.
Bruce > On Sep 5, 2015, at 7:03 PM, Les Koehler <vmr...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > > No, they're not part of Rexx, but as mentioned by Leslie earlier, they > *are* part of CMS and were specifically added to improve the usability > of Rexx. I was with IBM at the time and we cheered there addition! > > Les > > On 9/5/2015 9:29 PM, CVBruce wrote: >> I’m not an expert on this, but the example you gave in your bug report would >> never work. This has nothing to do with rexx, but with the way Linux/Unix >> works. When you typed the ampersand “&” at the end of the command, you >> disconnected your keyboard from the running process and reconnected it to >> the shell. You can type all day and your program won’t see a single >> character. >> >> I played around with this and this example works on Linux (Raspbian) with >> ooRexx (5.0.0). >> #!/usr/bin/rexx >> X = 0; >> Do I = 1 to 100000 >> X = X + 1; >> If X//5 == 0 Then Do; >> address hostemu TS >> end >> If X//7 == 0 Then Do; >> address hostemu TE >> end >> end; >> ::requires "hostemu” LIBRARY >> >> When you run this program, it must be in foreground or your keyboard will >> not be attached to the program. I got this example working by reading the >> documentation provided in the ooRexx Extensions V4.1.3 manual. I don’t find >> this functionality particularly useful, and you may not either. That >> doesn’t mean that they are buggy. And just because you find something in a >> TSO or CMS manual doesn’t mean that it is a part of “Rexx”. I just checked >> “The Rexx Language, 2ed” and TE, TS, and HI are not mentioned. >> >> Bruce >> >>> On Sep 5, 2015, at 4:04 PM, J. Leslie Turriff <jlturr...@mail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Apparently, the ooRexx developers are happy with their crippled >>> implementation of these emulated commands, since their response to my bug >>> report is essentially, 'working as designed,' as IBM would have said (or >>> broken as designed, as IBM users sometimes have been wont to say about >>> broken >>> features). >>> See https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/1350/ >>> >>> Leslie >>> >>> On Tuesday 18 August 2015 05:35:03 J. Leslie Turriff wrote: >>>> The Rexx Extensions Library Reference (sort of) documents the HI, TS and >>>> TE immediate commands (syntax only) but does not explain how they are used. >>>> When a Rexx program is running and I type TS on the command line the system >>>> >>>> does not recognize it. I get one of two messages: >>>>> sh: TS: command not found >>>> >>>> which is output from bash if I type it on the console where the >>>> Rexx >>>> program is running; or >>>> >>>>> If 'ts' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the >>>>> package >>>> >>>> that contains it, like this: >>>>> cnf ts >>>> >>>> if I type the command on another console. >>>> >>>> Prefacing it with 'rexx' does not help. So, how are these used in the >>>> *nix environment? >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> A Caution to Everybody >>> >>> Consider the Auk; >>> Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk. >>> Consider man, who may well become extinct >>> Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked. >>> >>> -- Ogden Nash >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Oorexx-users mailing list >>> Oorexx-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-users >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Oorexx-users mailing list >> Oorexx-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-users mailing list > Oorexx-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-users
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