Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!iuvax!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!kenm From: kenm@natinst.com (Ken McKinney) Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx Subject: Re: AREXX vs REXX Summary: REXX handling of I/O (IBM Version) Message-ID: <4060@natinst.natinst.com> Date: 16 Aug 89 18:00:24 GMT References: <7841@ardent.UUCP> Distribution: comp.lang.rexx Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX Lines: 15 IBM REXX (at least up to VM/SP 5.0) doesn't have any facilities for reading files in it. At IBM, we used the CMS EXECIO command or invoked an XEDIT macro when we wanted to do file I/O (which was pretty much all the time). The EXECIO command was fairly primitive due to the limitations of the CMS file structure; It couldn't read in less than a line at a time. Of course there was always XEDIT; you could do almost anything with it. XEDIT blows VI away (and it has to work in block mode!). It's the most customizable editor I've ever seen, although I understand EMACS comes close. REXX and XEDIT make a great team. Does AREXX work well with the amiga editor? Ken McKinney (ex REXX programmer) National Instruments Austin, TX