No, they're not part of Rexx, but as mentioned by Leslie earlier, they *are* part of CMS and were specifically added to improve the usability of Rexx. I was with IBM at the time and we cheered there addition!
Les On 9/5/2015 9:29 PM, CVBruce wrote: > I’m not an expert on this, but the example you gave in your bug report would > never work. This has nothing to do with rexx, but with the way Linux/Unix > works. When you typed the ampersand “&” at the end of the command, you > disconnected your keyboard from the running process and reconnected it to the > shell. You can type all day and your program won’t see a single character. > > I played around with this and this example works on Linux (Raspbian) with > ooRexx (5.0.0). > #!/usr/bin/rexx > X = 0; > Do I = 1 to 100000 > X = X + 1; > If X//5 == 0 Then Do; > address hostemu TS > end > If X//7 == 0 Then Do; > address hostemu TE > end > end; > ::requires "hostemu” LIBRARY > > When you run this program, it must be in foreground or your keyboard will not > be attached to the program. I got this example working by reading the > documentation provided in the ooRexx Extensions V4.1.3 manual. I don’t find > this functionality particularly useful, and you may not either. That doesn’t > mean that they are buggy. And just because you find something in a TSO or > CMS manual doesn’t mean that it is a part of “Rexx”. I just checked “The > Rexx Language, 2ed” and TE, TS, and HI are not mentioned. > > Bruce > >> On Sep 5, 2015, at 4:04 PM, J. Leslie Turriff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Apparently, the ooRexx developers are happy with their crippled >> implementation of these emulated commands, since their response to my bug >> report is essentially, 'working as designed,' as IBM would have said (or >> broken as designed, as IBM users sometimes have been wont to say about broken >> features). >> See https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/1350/ >> >> Leslie >> >> On Tuesday 18 August 2015 05:35:03 J. Leslie Turriff wrote: >>> The Rexx Extensions Library Reference (sort of) documents the HI, TS and >>> TE immediate commands (syntax only) but does not explain how they are used. >>> When a Rexx program is running and I type TS on the command line the system >>> >>> does not recognize it. I get one of two messages: >>>> sh: TS: command not found >>> >>> which is output from bash if I type it on the console where the >>> Rexx >>> program is running; or >>> >>>> If 'ts' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the >>>> package >>> >>> that contains it, like this: >>>> cnf ts >>> >>> if I type the command on another console. >>> >>> Prefacing it with 'rexx' does not help. So, how are these used in the >>> *nix environment? >> >> >> >> -- >> A Caution to Everybody >> >> Consider the Auk; >> Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk. >> Consider man, who may well become extinct >> Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked. >> >> -- Ogden Nash >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Oorexx-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Oorexx-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-users
