[WarpCast] Rexx - VisPro/Rexx tips and snippets - 4/01/99




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Source: Wayne Swanson (psoft@Tech-Center.com)
Moderator: Dirk Terrell (admin@os2ss.com)
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In the past, I had always hoped that "someone" would 
establish a site that catered to the users of Rexx and 
VisPro/Rexx in particular. Personally, I had a lot of 
unanswered questions while learning Rexx and VisPro/Rexx
and would like to see that rectified for new users as well 
as showing some of the old dogs (me?) learning a few 
tricks. Bernd Schemmer's terrific rexx "Tips and Tricks"
covers a wealth of information on Rexx but the VisPro/Rexx 
user has nothing of the sort.

Having been involved in quite a few ventures I knew that 
"someone" would never get it done if "I" (read "you too") 
would not get out of my easy chair and do something about 
it. I am a proponent of the Ask not what OS/2 
can do for you, but what you can do for OS/2 
line of thinking. In the OS/2 world, we can only expect our 
support systems to be as good as we are willing to make them.

This goes beyond a Rexx page and should be part of our 
overall thinking toward OS/2 advocacy and support (VOICE, 
ng's, mailing lists etc.) but that is a subject for another 
day. (btw: I use the term "advocacy" here in the nicest
possible connotation )

The site is there to help anyone that needs help or hints 
using Rexx or VisPro/Rexx but it will only be as helpful as 
we are able to make it "collectively". 

I will be putting snippets on the site as time allows but 
what I hope for is for "you" to share your expertise with 
others too. None of us in particular always know the best 
solution to a given problem but working together we can 
mold top shelf snippets by "committee" that will be 
available to everyone. There are also many things that we 
can help each other with that may not have been set forth 
very clearly in the documentation for Rexx or VisPro/Rexx.

If it grows, I will try to organize the information as best 
I can. I have given very little thought as to it's 
organization so far as I had just decided it was time to do 
something like this and forged ahead. 

The site will be limited to OS/2 and VisPro based Rexx 
solutions for now as I am not familiar with some of the 
other platform idiosyncrasies and have a finite
amount of time and space to host the information. RexxLA is 
planning a repository and I am happy to place this in their 
hands as a small segment of their site if it does develop.

Prospective contributors, please read the link "about this 
site" to see how we can make it easy on me getting your 
snippets posted. (there I go thinking about myself again) 
:-)

The site is at:
http://www.fm-net.com/pillarsoft/rexx/rexx.html


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