Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdahl!terry From: terry@uts.amdahl.com (Lewis T. Flynn) Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx Subject: Re: Summary of responses to query "Why use REXX in Unix environment?" Message-ID: Date: 15 Oct 90 16:57:04 GMT References: <10586@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> <90282.012925QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> <69733@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Reply-To: terry@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Lewis T. Flynn) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 9 In article <69733@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> jac@gandalf..llnl.gov (James Crotinger) writes: > Do people in the VM/CMS world use REXX for this type of thing? >(Obviously people don't on PC's 8-). How about on UNIX? That's exactly what's done in VM/CMS and, not so obviously, on PCs with kedit and Personal Rexx (both from Mansfield). MS-DOS is pretty brain dead, but you can still do quite a bit. Terry