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From: edds@sas.UUCP (Tom Edds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: who's got rexxarplib.library working?
Keywords: Arexx, ARP
Message-ID: <790@sas.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 89 14:49:44 GMT
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Organization: SAS Institute Inc.,Cary NC,25712
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  Has anyone else tried using the rexxarplib.library lately? This is
a library to let you do things like put up the ARP file requestor
from an ARexx macro. There's a version on the 1.06 update for ARexx;
I've also got version 2.0 (found it on a BBS).

  The ARexx update comes with a sample program to install the library
and do a simple check of the GetFile function. I can't even get this
to work!!  The only info I can get out of ARexx is 

  "Error 12: Error return from function."

This tells me that it's at least finding the routine, but something's
going wrong with the call. Since I'm  using the check-out program
that came with the ARexx distribution, I'm assuming it worked for
somebody at some point in time.

   Has anybody successfully used this library under AmigaDOS 1.3? This
library was developed under 1.2, though I would guess the OS version
shouldn't make any difference.  I'm also using WShell, but that should only
help, not hinder. A brief perusal didn't show anything else that should
interfere here. 

  Any suggestions, oh great and wonderful readers of the netnews?

  Tom Edds   UUCP   edds@sas.unx.sas.com   
             bizphone: (919) 467-8000