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From: jcmorris@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Joseph C. Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Anybody have REXX for IBM PC ?
Keywords: VM/CMS, EXEC, EXEC2, REXX, PL/I
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Date: 20 Jul 88 20:04:25 GMT
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In article <1294@csuna.UUCP> abcscnuk@csun.UUCP (Naoto Kimura) writes:
>I was wondering if anybody had a REXX interpreter that would run on an
>IBM PC.

Personal REXX has been out for several years as a product of Mansfield
Software Group.  It implements most of the CMS REXX language (mostly minus
the VM-specific functions).  I don't recall the price, since I've had a copy
since the beta-test days.

Mansfield has also implemented a very large subset of REXX in the latest
version (4.0) of their KEDIT editor.  Previous versions of KEDIT could use
Personal REXX if you purchased both products, but the new release provides
the subset without additional cost.  (But you can get the full P-REXX 
features by combining the products.)

I recommend both Personal REXX and KEDIT for PC users, especially programmer
types.  They were designed to be close to the VM implementations of REXX and
XEDIT, but use features on the PC which the mainframe users can't get (at 
least from Big Blue).

The vendor's address is:
 
       Mansfield Software Group
       P. O. Box 532
       Storrs, CT 06268

       (203) 429-8402

Mansfield also operates a bulletin board for users of their software, and
questions (and complaints) about their software are frequently answered by
the author.

Joe Morris

Disclaimer:  I've worked with the authors of these products at meetings of
IBM mainframe users but have no financial interest in the company.