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From: cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: dBMan 5 (Was Re: Still no Ami businessware.)
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.014621.6680@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 91 01:46:21 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.203948.22356@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: l-rittle@uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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In article <1991Mar14.203948.22356@maytag.waterloo.edu> giguere@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Giguere) writes:
>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,
>>...
>
>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.
>
Why is SimpleRexx better than MinRexx?  Also what are the restrictions
on SimpleRexx?  MinRexx is nice because you get full PD source.
Some people may not want to put someone else's copywritten code
in their application...  If SimpleRexx comes with source and is
truly better than MinRexx, I'm converted :-).

BTW, great Rexx article in the March issue of `Computer Language',
Eric.

`Rexx: Not Just a Wonder Dog', great name too.

>Eric Giguere                                       giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA

Loren J. Rittle
-- 
``NewTek stated that the Toaster  *would*  *not*  be made to directly support
  the Mac, at this point Sculley stormed out of the booth...'' --- A scene at
  the recent MacExpo.  Gee, you wouldn't think that an Apple Exec would be so
  worried about one little Amiga device... Loren J. Rittle  l-rittle@uiuc.edu