Re: Arexx again

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From: Terrance Richard Boyes
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:00

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Neil Bothwick <postmaster@wirenet.co.uk> wrote:

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> The other way to do it is to use environment variables, but you have
> to use an extra library to use those easily in arexx. So clips are

err=open(envio,'ENV:'var,'R')

Would do the job since local env vars aren't suitable in this case
anyway :) Though using the function libraries is nicer...

> easier, although they use slightly more memory. The other thing to
> watch for with get/setclip is that the clip name is case-sensitive.

And the memory isn't released unless you do so explicitly,
of course that's only really important if you use a lot, but
again it's nicer to do so...

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