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REXX Reference Summary Handbook - Fourth Edition update
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The fourth edition of the best-selling, award-winning REXX Reference
Summary Handbook (Dick Goran - ISBN 0-9639854-3-4) is now available. This new
edition of the Handbook, which has been updated for Warp 4, is a 228 page,
"keyboard-side" companion which details all of the instructions and functions
in SAA REXX distributed with OS/2 Version 2.1, OS/2 Warp Version 3, and OS/2
Warp Version 4.
The Handbook also documents all of the functions in the new REXXUTIL API
distributed on Warp 4 with Object REXX. The extensive index occupies an
additional 38 pages. The Table of Contents for the Handbook is available for
viewing at http://www.cfsrexx.com/rrsh-4/.
The Handbook, as indicated by its subtitle "Everything You Wanted To Know
About Creating OS/2 Workplace Shell Objects With REXX, But Didn't Know Where
To Look", also contains all of the information necessary to create and
maintain Workplace Shell objects in OS/2.
The Handbook details all of the functions included in the following
Application Program Interfaces (APIs):
REXXUTIL - (Classic REXX) - Updated
This default version of REXXUTIL, distributed with all
versions of OS/2 beginning with 2.1, contains 40
functions, easily recognizable by their Sys prefix,
that deal primarily with: OS/2 system commands, user or
text screen input/output (I/O), and OS/2 INI file I/O.
REXXUTIL - (Object REXX) - New
This expanded version of REXXUTIL, available with
Object REXX, contains an additional 38 functions beyond
those available in the Classic REXXUTIL. The additional
functions include support for Event and Mutex
semaphores, REXX macrospace, National language support
including code pages, as well as many additional
miscellaneous system functions. Some of these new
functions are not documented anywhere else.
REXXLIB & RXWINDOW - Updated
External function packages available from Quercus
Systems - the Personal REXX developer.
RxFTP - New
The REXX File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Application
Program Interface (API) package provides access to the
OS/2 TCP/IP FTP API's.
WPTools - New
The WPTools API is unique freeware that contains two
extremely useful and unique functions which provide an
interface between REXX programs and Workplace Shell
objects.
Additional items new to, or updated in, the fourth edition
of the Handbook include:
o Numerous examples have been added for the built-in
functions.
o New and updated REXXLIB functions.
o Addition of the Object IDs of the new standard system
objects for Warp 4 (including the Java-related
objects).
o Warp 4 Object Class list.
o New or updated object setup strings are included for
the following object classes:
WPColorPalette WPPalette
WPDesktop WPPdr
WPFolder WPPrinter
WPFontPalette WPProgram
WPHost WPRPrinter
WPKeyboard WPSchemePalette
WPObject WPUrl
The Handbook, which was awarded the OS/2 Magazine Editor's Choice award,
is not intended as either a tutorial or a learner's guide. With its 40 page
cross referenced index, the Handbook is an important tool that will allow the
novice REXX user and the REXX veteran alike to easily locate any needed
function as well as identifying the various functions which deal with a
particular subject.
The Handbook has been accredited by IBM for use of the official OS/2 logo
and C F S Nevada, Inc. is a member of the IBM Independent Vendor league and
Premier Developer Application Program.
If you are running a secure Internet browser (both Netscape for OS/2 and
the IBM OS/2 Secure Web Explorer qualify), you can order the REXX Reference
Summary Handbook online at http://www.cfsrexx.com/rrsh-4/. The Handbook can
also be ordered from:
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Dick Goran author, REXX Reference Summary Handbook
C F S Nevada, Inc. Contrib. Ed., Personal Systems Magazine
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