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From: eric@sejnet.sunet.se (Eric Thomas, SUNET)
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Subject: Re: REXX Language levels
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Date: 19 Dec 90 22:28:26 GMT
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In article <9012191426.AA00905@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, cathcart@ukfsc.iinus1.ibm.com ("Mark Cathcart") writes...
> Level 3.45
> 
>    -   add built-in functions: digits, form, fuzz, wordpos
>(...)
>    -   delete externals, find, index, justify, linesize, userid bifs

I have *tons* of EXEC's that use FIND, because FIND is what there was at the
beginning. Since I run SP5 I do not even *have* a version of REXX that supports
WORDPOS, and SAA REXX does not support FIND any longer. Very, very clever of
IBM I must say.

  Eric

PS: Mark, I know it's not your fault :-) Besides which I don't care whether my
    EXEC's are SAA or not, it's just a philosophical comment.