wb2 rexx

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4 total messages Started by David Le Blanc Sat, 08 Dec 1990 18:45

#7346

Author: David Le Blanc
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 1990 18:45

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While 'playing' with wb202 I noticed that 'rexx' scripts are executed
relative to their current directory, not yours.

Eg
/*
 * Script to run vi in the background
 */

parse arg param

address COMMAND

'changetaskpri 0'
'cd'
'run bin:z' param

The 'cd' command displays the path of the 'rexx:' directory, not your current
directory. HENCE, to use the script, you must pass the full PATH of the
file to be edited, not just the name.

Also, does anyone know if W.Hawes is working on an even better WShell? He
should (IMHO), since WShell is pretty much defunct with Wb2.0 ie (no access
to the 2.0 internally resident commands, file completion wont work unless
you use conman, but conman is now lacking in features compared to the new
console. (ALMOST everything that made it better has been implemented.
I still think it has a much superior line editor though. And I crave the
command line rexx thingies "do for 10; 'sound mmd'; end" :-))

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Re: wb2 rexx

#7361

Author: NIV
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 1990 04:48

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Lets put it this way,  I know for sure something is in the works
and you will love it if you liked the old WShell.

WShell update for 2.0 (Was Re: wb2 rexx)

#7389

Author: Blaine Gardner
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 1990 15:57

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david@walking.pub.uu.oz.au (David Le Blanc) writes:

>Also, does anyone know if W.Hawes is working on an even better WShell? He
>should (IMHO), since WShell is pretty much defunct with Wb2.0 ie (no access
>to the 2.0 internally resident commands, file completion wont work unless
>you use conman, but conman is now lacking in features compared to the new
>console. 

Bill is working on a new version for 2.0, but it won't be available for
a while. In the meantime, he's released an update for WShell & ConMan.
The update lets ConMan use the new CON: features, and lets WShell use
the 2.0 resident commands. If the file hasn't made it to any of the
archive sites yet, I can ship it off to comp.binaries.amiga. 
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Re: wb2 rexx

#7418

Author: Andy Finkel
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 1990 01:57

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In article <1854bb07.ARN1736@walking.pub.uu.oz.au> david@walking.pub.uu.oz.au writes:
>console. (ALMOST everything that made it better has been implemented.
>I still think it has a much superior line editor though. And I crave the
>command line rexx thingies "do for 10; 'sound mmd'; end" :-))

I'm sure Bill's working on an update, never fear.

In the meantime, you can do the command line rexx thing by saying

rx "do for 10; 'sound mmd'; end"

This works best if rx is made resident.

>    David Le Blanc    UUCP (home)   : eyrie!walking!david@labtam@munnari.oz

		andy

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