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From: sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers)
Subject: Re: Programming advice needed
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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 16:50:08 GMT
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In article <2ubiom$l46@cleese.apana.org.au> paulh@seldon.apanix.apana.org.au (Paul A. Hoadley) writes:
>Every year, I write a "program" for a secondary schools' debating
>competition by hand. It amounts to a list of who debates who, where and
>when. It is not a trivial task, and takes hours of "fiddling", for various
>reasons.
>
>Last season, I wrote a series of REXX (AREXX) scripts to automate PART of
>the process -- ultimately the "who debates who" part of the program is
>just list manipulation. This saved a substantial amount of time, and
>avoided a significant number of errors.
>
>On selling my Commodore Amiga, I lost the ability to run these scripts,
>but would *very much* like to find an alternative solution.
>
>1) Does anyone know of any software (commercial or otherwise) which deals
>with this type of process?
>
>2) What options are there for running REXX scripts under either MS-DOS or
>(preferably) FreeBSD?
>
>3) Given that (at least for the first part) the actual algorithm isn't
>terribly complex, what are some simple options for implementing them in a
>different language, preferably for free, and preferably running under
>FreeBSD (but also given that my ability to program in C is almost
>non-existant)?
>
There is also a public-domain REXX implementation which could
be ported to FreeBSD.. then you might be able to run your REXX
scripts with few changes...
Here's the info I have on it:
language: REXX
package: The Regina Rexx Interpreter
version: 0.05i
parts: interpreter, documentation, test programs
author: Anders Christensen <anders@pvv.unit.no>
location: ftp pub/rexx/regina-0.05g.tar.Z from flipper.pvv.unit.no
N.America: ftp pub/freerexx/regina/regina-0.05d.tar.Z
from rexx.uwaterloo.ca
description: A Rexx interpreter. The VMS version has an almost complete
set of DCL lexical functions in the interpreter. Ports to
MS-DOS and OS/2 exist by lack special support for these
platforms.
conformance: Almost completely to Rexx Language Level 4.00 with some
Rexx SAA API extensions.
restriction: GNU General Public License
ports: Unix, VMS, MS-DOS (partial), OS/2 (partial)
discussion: comp.lang.rexx
updated: 1993/10/15
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