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From: skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How to improve Workbench 2.0!
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.222000.22102@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 22:20:00 GMT
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In article <18543@cbmvax.commodore.com> andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes:
>In article <1991Feb3.101342.8383@news.iastate.edu> skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L) writes:
>>
>>     I'm not sure if this is needed, but how 'bout a REXX bit in the file
>>system, like the pure bit except for REXX programs, then when you type a
>>filename with the REXX bit set it sends the input to the REXX interpreter
>>and you don't have to keep typing 'rx filename' (maybe this isn't needed,
>>it's been a month or two since I last read my AREXX docs).
>
>We have one of those; we use the script bit.  If the script
>bit is set, the shell knows its a script, and looks at
>the file to determine what interpreter wants to handle it.
>
>It's kind of extensible, by letting the execute command
>make the decision as to what interpreter gets to run
>the script.
>
>			andy
>
>>							--George
>
>-- 
>andy finkel		{uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy
>Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

     Wow, I didn't realize the 's' bit applied to ARexx scripts too.  I'll
have to go home and try that...  :-)
					--George


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