Re: REXX command standards

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From: Willis F York
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 1990 04:07

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mwm@raven.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes:
>The other thing you have to do before starting on a standard is
>design the command set. Just throwing stuff in as needed is a good
>way to create problems. The above set looks like it's in that
>category.

Ever see MFF+ (MicroFiche Filer +) I don't have the Manual handy but the
Arexx commands are Annoying "Named"  here are a few top'o my head
suggestions to help smooth out commands/ports

Have the port name in Lowercase letters.
use all lowercase. (I spent an Hour figering oou why somthing wasen't working
, Aress was upper casing the portname and i needed to ad some ' marks)

Give Nice names to the commands but avoid LONG command names.
Mff+ is a good bad example of this.

To get WB to front (I think this is right) the command is .
"MFF+_to_Back"
. (Descripitive but annoying)
All the other commands are equally weird.
the Case is Mixed also, which has caused problems.
(MFF uses a Weird way of Macros which are rexx scripts in single quotes
and commands.mff which are normal rexx stuff.

Well Just my .02$, CED2.0 has a very nice rexx port.
basicially every menu item can be asecced from REXX.
by saying the name of the menu item, or the menu command,
ie 
menu(1,2,3)
will select the 3 subitem of the 2 item on the first menu.
C-ya

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yorkw@ecn.purdue.edu  Willis F York    
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