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From: colin_fox@icecave.wimsey.bc.ca (Colin Fox)
Message-ID: <colin_fox.8115@icecave.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: Animatrix
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: REXX compiler
Date: 21 May 91 01:27:56 PDT

>In article <100651@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker) writes:
>>In article <91May10.180707edt.8742@orasis.vis.toronto.edu>
>>green@vis.toronto.edu (Anthony Thomas Green) writes:
>>|Any guesses as to how big the Amiga REXX community is? I am just finishing
>>|up a REXX compiler (well... ok, it compiles REXX to C (and is called
>>|REXXTACY! Get it?)) for OS/2 and am considering porting it.
>
>>	AmigaDos 2.0 is nearly ready to go out the
>>	door; AREXX is included as an integral part
>>	of each & every copy.
>
>AmigDos 2.0 has been shipping for some time, and it does come with
>ARexx.
>
>Way cool, man.
>
>Did CBM buy ARexx from Hawes, or did they write their own?
>
>--
>J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2126
>Skate(UNIX || Amiga);

bzzzzt - Sorry, wrong answer, but thanks for playing. 2.0 IS NOT shipping yet,
except packaged with Amiga 3000s.

And Commodore liscenced ARexx from Bill Hawes.

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