On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Mike Cowlishaw <m...@speleotrove.com> wrote:
> I finally came across a "killer application" that prompted me to
> 'upgrade' my Windows 7 machine to 64-bit yesterday.
>
> I assumed I should therefore install the 64-bit version of ooRexx.
> However, doing this broke every program of mine that uses Rexx (it took me
> some hours to find out that the use of Rexx was the problem).
>
> The workaround was to uninstall ooRexx-64 and install the 32-bit version
> as before -- all is now working.
>
> So .. is there any reason why I should install the 64-bit version of
> ooRexx? Or is there a setting that would allow me to install that but
> still let 32-bit applications use it? I have 20-30 32-bit programs that
> use Rexx and really don't want to revisit/recompile most of them.
>
No real reason unless you really need the extra address space or larger
objects. There's really no possible way for the 64-bit version to be used
by 32-bit applications.
Rick
>
> Mike
>
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