On Saturday 05 September 2015 20:29:11 CVBruce wrote:
> 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.
That's true, and I should not have used that example to illustrate the
problem.
If the ooRexx program was running in the foreground there would be no
way to
enter any of the three immediate commands there; conceptually they could be
issued in a different terminal window, and if they communicated with rxapid
to mediate communication, that might make the emulation work.
> 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.
But the TE, TS and HI provided by ooRexx are intended as an emulation
of the
functions in the CMS and TSO environments that mainframe Rexx runs in.
But as implemented they could never provide that emulation.
Perhaps they should just be removed from Rexx Extensions, since they
are
useless as provided.
--
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
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