Re: Draft Command Script Processing Manual
Lynn, I can report that Parasite and Story are alive and well. I still have the source, have been maintaining it, and still use both programs on a daily basis... Ray Mansell IBM Research (ex-IBM Hursley) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: parasite did 3270 terminal emulation. it was less than 8k bytes executable (written in assembler). story was the scripting processor ... also less than 8k bytes executable (written in assembler). the above has example of some number of story "scripts". story processing included support for REX variables ... aka still internal software ... before it was renamed to REXX and released as a product. there is even an example story in the above to automatically retain put bucket from retain.
Re: Draft Command Script Processing Manual
Brian Westerman wrote: > I have the draft manual for the command script processing program ready for > those that are interested in taking a look at it before I finalize it. If > you would like to take a look at it for me it can be downloaded from: for some drift, here are old posts reference parasite/story from the late 70s. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#35 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#36 parasite did 3270 terminal emulation. it was less than 8k bytes executable (written in assembler). story was the scripting processor ... also less than 8k bytes executable (written in assembler). the above has example of some number of story "scripts". story processing included support for REX variables ... aka still internal software ... before it was renamed to REXX and released as a product. there is even an example story in the above to automatically retain put bucket from retain.
