Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!amdahl!dlb!ardent!rap
From: rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Browser 2.0 idea.
Message-ID: <325@ardent.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 88 19:42:08 GMT
References: <724@nuchat.UUCP>
Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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Summary: since you want to get integrated...

In article <724@nuchat.UUCP>, peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> Anybody have any nifty ideas for what I can do with a public message port
> in Browser?
> 
> Anyone interested in becoming integrated?
> -- 
> -- a clone of Peter (have you hugged your wolf today) da Silva  `-_-'

If you are going to do the public message port thing anyway, why not
go with what COULD become a standard, and make it respond as an AREXX 
port might respond.  AREXX ports receive from AREXX (or anybody else
for that matter) a message that looks remarkably like an AmigaDOS
packet, with up to 15 parameters, each of which is an APTR, but could
be used to pass something else if desired.  And there is a result1 and
result2 field in the message structure for return of the results.

I almost have the last bugs out of adding an AREXX port to SpeechToy
(I know more about doing the port than I did before, and am making
fewer mistakes).  I have not used AREXX extensively, but I can see
lots of possibilities in it.  When I have the SpeechToy mods done,
I will post it, with the AREXX mods easily visible, so show others
that it is really not so hard to do.

Published standards make it a lot easier to integrate tools.  I think
AREXX has a good idea.

DISCLAIMER:  I am just a satisfied customer (and a tool junky).
I have no connection with the author of AREXX.

Rob Peck			...ihnp4!hplabs!ardent!rap