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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!news.larc.nasa.gov!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!newsfeed.pitt.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!newsgate.duke.edu!news.eff.org!wariat.org!kf8nh.apk.net!news From: bsa@kf8nh.apk.net (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH) Newsgroups: alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,alt.org.team-os2,alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is Microsoft's Internet plan more about its love of power than about users? Date: 31 May 1996 23:20:18 -0400 Organization: Brandon's home server in Parma, Ohio Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4oocti$ltn@kf8nh.apk.net> References: <4mlpnf$d4p@sidhe.memra.com> <4npu4t$c7j@access1.digex.net> <4o0a60$9ff@kf8nh.apk.net> <4o4616$gg@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: kf8nh.apk.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.fan.bill-gates:22801 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:108387 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:144067 comp.os.os2.advocacy:206479 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:110517 comp.os.linux.advocacy:50657 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20433 Also sprach brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) (<4o4616$gg@anorak.coverform.lan>): +----- | Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (bsa@kf8nh.apk.net) wrote: | : Also sprach rdd@access1.digex.net (R. D. Davis) (<4npu4t$c7j@access1.digex.net>): | : | >this stuff. Most of these things can be done in 5 minutes with REXX. | : | ...and probably in less time on a UNIX system with shell scripts. | | : Perl scripts, yes. Awk scripts, often. Shell scripts? Not! The shell is | : very flexible, but even awk has problems duplicating e.g. PARSE PULL. | | What's PARSE PULL ? Isn't that just a "read" ? +--->8 PULL is a read. PARSE is a general mechanism for extracting information from a string (for PARSE PULL, a line of input) under control of a template. The "REXX Information" book doesn't give very much detail on its use *or* its capabilities; I learned mostly by looking at other people's REXX scripts and from long-disused memory of VM/SP REXX manuals. | : On the flip side, REXX is also available for Unix. | IBM are getting respectable these days... or did someone else port it ? +--->8 Someone else ported it, just as IBM didn't do AREXX (the Amiga's stock extension language). -- ++brandon s. allbery from home in parma, oh bsa@kf8nh.apk.net (work address) bsa@telotech.com