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Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: Rexx compiler(s)
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Friday, 24 Aug 1990 21:11:05 EDT
From: Jeff Boyd <BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
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INTERPRET is also a powerful debugging tool for some types of programs. I have
a vm/cms message processing package in which i've implemented a back door to
the INTERPRET command. Anytime the program is running, I can send a Rexx
command to it for execution. I can thus check the status of any variables which
are invisible to the normal user, and without shutting down and adding TRACEs
or SAYs.