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From: abcscnuk@csuna.UUCP (Naoto Kimura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Anybody have REXX for IBM PC ?
Keywords: VM/CMS, EXEC, EXEC2, REXX, PL/I
Message-ID: <1294@csuna.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 88 02:47:27 GMT
Reply-To: abcscnuk@csun.UUCP (Naoto Kimura)
Organization: California State University, Northridge
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I was wondering if anybody had a REXX interpreter that would run on an
IBM PC.  I'm pretty sure that there were a few requests some time ago,
but I seem to have missed all the replies if there were any.  For those
who aren't familiar with what REXX (stands for Restructured EXtended
eXecutor) is, it is basically interpreted PL/I (with a few
modifications), and is the IBM's equivalent of the unix shell language.

Since I'm on the subject of command interpreters, anybody have
suggestions for a command language better than the standard COMMAND.COM?
(Please don't suggest BASIC, BASICA, or GWBASIC -- I've had to resort to
them because of the shortcomings of the command language and am looking
for something better than BASIC) Do the DOS implementations of the
bourne shell have the ability to execute shell scripts ?  How well do
the bourne shell implementations work when called from within a program?

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P.S.:	Another thing I was wondering if there exists a compiler
	for a subset of PL/I available for the IBM PC.   If so,
	where do I find such a thing ?