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cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes:
>Could somebody enlighten a novice?  What would standardizing the AREXX
>commands buy you?  The basic AREXX commands (those that aren't sent out of
>AREXX) are already standard and the commands sent to application ports would
>have requirements based on the application.

Currently, commands sent to application ports are unique to each program, but
many programs do much of the same thing.  Let's say I wanted an AREXX program
to run from an fkey in my editor that would get the current word under the
cursor and use it look for a manual page in my man: directory, displaying
it in a new window of my editor.  The basic flow of the program is the same
no matter what editor I use, and any editor worth using has the ability to do
this with AREXX, but I'd need one version if I used CEDpro, another for LSE,
another for TxEd, another for QED, ad nauseum.

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