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From: giguere@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Giguere)
Subject: Re: REXX command standards
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.182755.12081@maytag.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 18:27:55 GMT
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In article <1990Nov12.224249.18759@sisd.kodak.com> jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) writes:
>Of course, each program is unique, but there should be some standardization
>of a common subset of commands for each application. 

Actually, there is work going on right now to do just that... it should bear
fruit in a few months, I think, but it will be a while before old programs
will start adapting these standards.  This is a problem across any system
that uses something like ARexx as a general-purpose macro language...

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Eric Giguere                                       giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA
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