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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A3000 and WB2.0 --- HELP!!!
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Date: 19 Sep 90 13:57:31 GMT
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>In article <1788@nemesis.stsci.edu> scott@stsci.EDU (Jim Scott) writes:
>:
>: 4.     friends of mine who have the 1000 and 500 all got basic.
>:       i find it nowhere on my system, nor is mentioned in the
>:       documentation.  does c= no longer provide basic?  how come?

One answer to "how come?" is because AREXX is there.  AREXX is a fine language
and can be used to do many of the things that BASIC might have been used
for in the past.  For example, on this mainframe I am using to read this
newsgroup, the entire news package is written in mainframe REXX.

The main obstacle then is learning AREXX.  There are only a couple of
REXX books available aside from the manual, and you probably won't find
it in the usual bookstore.  Try the library, books in print, any large
IBM site, and so on.

Others can tell you the details, but there are also a number of
distributable REXX addons for windows, serial ports, and so on.

lee