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From: GIAMPAL@AUVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AREXX commands standardization
Message-ID: <89305.120953GIAMPAL@AUVM.BITNET>
Date: 1 Nov 89 17:09:53 GMT
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I too think a standard Arexx interface for specific types of programs would
be nice.  I mean a 'save' operation for an editor or 'save as' should all
be referred to identically and that way things are a little easier if you
wish to share scripts that you have written.

Maybe someone at commodore will take up the gauntlet and just ask people who
are creating programs to adhere to a general standard.  If one program has a
special feature that isn't around in other programs that's fine, but general
things like say for a spreadsheet should be the same all around (add c3 + d5).

Actually if this doesn't happen I think ARexx will tend to lose a lot of its
functionality to the fact that if you write a script it will only work with
the one program you happened to have, and besides who wants to have re-write
things just because one program calls saving 'saveold' as opposed to just
'save'....