Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!haven!decuac!bacchus.pa.dec.com!bacchus!mwm From: mwm@raven.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: REXX command standards Message-ID: Date: 19 Nov 90 19:44:49 GMT References: <3800@mindlink.UUCP> <1990Nov14.033931.12883@evax.arl.utexas.edu> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 43 In-Reply-To: yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu's message of 17 Nov 90 04:07:28 GMT In article yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) writes: Ever see MFF+ (MicroFiche Filer +) I don't have the Manual handy but the Arexx commands are Annoying "Named" here are a few top'o my head suggestions to help smooth out commands/ports Huh? I use MFF+ on a regular basis. Off the top of my head, it's the BEST example of how to do an ARexx interface I've run into. I _think_ you're complaining about case sensitivity - and MFF+ isn't case sensitive. Commands can be issued in any case. Please provide more details if this isn't the case. Have the port name in Lowercase letters. use all lowercase. (I spent an Hour figering oou why somthing wasen't working , Aress was upper casing the portname and i needed to ad some ' marks) Actually, to solve your problem, the port name needs to be in UPPER case, not lower. That way, you don't need to quote the port name. Give Nice names to the commands but avoid LONG command names. Mff+ is a good bad example of this. And LSE is a good example of going to far the other way (all the commands are two-character sequences, with possible two-character arguments). To get WB to front (I think this is right) the command is . "MFF+_to_Back" . (Descripitive but annoying) All the other commands are equally weird. the Case is Mixed also, which has caused problems. The commands are listed in mixed case; MFF+ is quite happy swallowing them in whatever case you wish to use. (MFF uses a Weird way of Macros which are rexx scripts in single quotes and commands.mff which are normal rexx stuff. That's not wierd, that's normal. Looks just like wshell (or mg3, for that matter). It's what ARexx provides by default when you send a macro to ARexx from the application.