[Oorexx-devel] Question on New Translate Parameters

2009-05-03 Thread Gil Barmwater
In working on my Symposium presentation on the new stuff in 4.0.0, I came across the examples of the new Translate parameters - pos, length. At first, I thought this one - TRANSLATE(abcdef, , , , 2, 3) - ABCDEF - must be wrong as I expected the result to be aBCDef but then realised that

[Oorexx-devel] Installing from source

2009-05-03 Thread Klaas.
Hi, I am trying to get ooRexx 4.0 up on my openSuse system. Downloaded the source - for all environments. Tries to use ./configure as I would expect. Nothing. After some time and study of older documentation (there doesn't seem to be recent doc in the source directory) I found

[Oorexx-devel] Some findings on how orxscript works

2009-05-03 Thread Rick McGuire
Ok, I've managed to get a debug 3.2.0 install set up on my system, and the stuff I'm finding is a bit on the bizarre side. Essentially all I did was set break points on all of the methods of orxscript.cpp and trace all of the calls between the scripting host and the Rexx scripting engine.

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Question on New Translate Parameters

2009-05-03 Thread Rick McGuire
Gil, This is a category of problem known as a doc bug. The correct results for these calls are aBCDef and 4ab3, as you expected. Please open a doc tracker for this. Rick On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Gil Barmwater gbarmwa...@alum.rpi.edu wrote: In working on my Symposium presentation on

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Installing from source

2009-05-03 Thread Mark Miesfeld
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Klaas. kpli...@xs4all.nl wrote:  I am trying to get ooRexx 4.0 up on my openSuse  system.  Downloaded the source - for all environments.  Tries to use ./configure as I would expect.  Nothing. Sorry, this is probably my fault. I've been packaging up the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Installing from source

2009-05-03 Thread Mark Miesfeld
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Klaas. kpli...@xs4all.nl wrote:  I am trying to get ooRexx 4.0 up on my openSuse  system. Until I get the source file package fixed, I'm curious as to why you don't want to install one of the already built packages for your openSuse system? There's nothing

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Question on New Translate Parameters

2009-05-03 Thread Gil Barmwater
Will do and thanks for the reassurance that I'm not yet senile! Rick McGuire wrote: Gil, This is a category of problem known as a doc bug. The correct results for these calls are aBCDef and 4ab3, as you expected. Please open a doc tracker for this. Rick On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:28

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Some findings on how orxscript works

2009-05-03 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
A maybe helpful URL, that contains other interesting links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Script_Host with a lot of interesting downloads Ah, was too quick, here a few more links, which you may know of already: * http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms950396.aspx: Scripting

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Installing from source

2009-05-03 Thread Klaas.
Op 03-mei-09 schreef Mark Miesfeld: On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Klaas. kpli...@xs4all.nl wrote:  I am trying to get ooRexx 4.0 up on my openSuse  system. Until I get the source file package fixed, I'm curious as to why you don't want to install one of the already built packages for your