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From: giguere@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Giguere)
Subject: Re: dBMan 5 (Was Re: Still no Ami businessware.)
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.203948.22356@maytag.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1991 20:39:48 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.042035.20543@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) writes:
>Final thought! No one has an excuse for not adding an ARexx port, as
>MinRexx has been placed in the Public Domain [by Radical Eye Software,
>maker of AmigaTeX].  You can use MinRexx for any blasted thing you
>want to, there are no restrictions.  If you are an application writer,
>do yourself a favor and get MinRexx (and do us a favor by adding an
>ARexx port!  Be sure it is complete (see CED, ProVector and others)
>ARexx support.)  It took less than one weeks time to add an ARexx
>port to ISpell (most of that time was spent figuring out how
>ISpell worked, hopefully you know how your application works! :-).

True, there is no excuse anymore.  However, I encourage people to use
SimpleRexx by Mike Sinz instead of MinRexx.  SimpleRexx was published
in an issue of Amiga Mail and is available on BIX and elsewhere.  And
coming soon, SimpleRexx v.2, with expanded functionality --- it can
also be used to call external functions, add/remove clip/lirary list items,
and also be used to implement function hosts.

Also, I would encourage everyone adding ARexx functionality to an
application to follow the guidelines in Commodore's new user interface
style guide, which provides a minimum set of commands "friendly" apps 
should support.

--
Eric Giguere                                       giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA
           Unlike the cleaning lady, I have to do Windows.