Re: REXX outside TSO

2022-06-30 Thread Robert Prins
Brainfcuk? Better look at this < http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-malbolge-995.html> On Thu, 30 Jun 2022, 20:49 Paul Gilmartin, < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 19:44:15 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: > > >I've heard the word "awk", but never

Re: REXX outside TSO

2022-06-30 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 19:44:15 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: >I've heard the word "awk", but never been exposed to it. I had the >impression, though, that I've heard of it in the context of Unix; am I >mistaken? > Somewhere in this tangle of threads someone mentioned BASIC for brevity. I

Re: REXX outside TSO

2022-06-30 Thread Wendell Lovewell
re: "Cygwin? The only thing that made Windows tolerable for me. Ubuntu basn?" The recent versions of Windows allow running Ubuntu or more other distributions of Linux, m/l "natively". Look up "Windows Subsystem for Linux" or "wsl.exe" or https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/ All

Re: REXX outside TSO

2022-06-30 Thread Seymour J Metz
Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Farley, Peter x23353 [031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 7:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: REXX outside TSO Not intending to continue this thread, but awk is a favorite tool

PDFBox (Re: REXX outside TSO

2022-06-30 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
At you could select the keyword "PDFBox" to get at the Bachelor thesis of Cristina Dobrea who had created nutshell examples in ooRexx to demonstrate how to use that library to create and manipulate PDF files. "PDFBox" is an open-source Java library

Re: REXX outside TSO

2022-06-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
s "data driven". Rexx could do very similar with a simple loop. >Remember, the topic of the moment was whether there's any use for REXX >~outside~ TSO. This was on a Windows system; I'm guessing awk wouldn't be one >of the available tools (even if I knew anything about it, I m

Re: REXX outside TSO

2022-06-29 Thread David Crayford
On 30/06/2022 7:44 am, Bob Bridges wrote: I've heard the word "awk", but never been exposed to it. I had the impression, though, that I've heard of it in the context of Unix; am I mistaken? Remember, the topic of the moment was whether there's any use for REXX ~ou

Re: REXX outside TSO

2022-06-29 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
st: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 7:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: REXX outside TSO I've heard the word "awk", bu

Re: REXX outside TSO

2022-06-29 Thread Bob Bridges
I've heard the word "awk", but never been exposed to it. I had the impression, though, that I've heard of it in the context of Unix; am I mistaken? Remember, the topic of the moment was whether there's any use for REXX ~outside~ TSO. This was on a Windows system; I'm guessing aw

Re: REXX outside TSO

2022-06-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:00:12 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: > >... writing a REXX that read the raw firewall extract and created a CSV in > about 20 seconds. REXX makes ~very~ short work of parsing. At the time I > don’t think I knew VBScript, but it surely would have been harder. > For that

REXX outside TSO

2022-06-29 Thread Bob Bridges
For what it's worth, I've had that need. Only twice, I admit: 1) At one employer I overheard my boss talking on the phone; apparently they'd been tracking viri by looking at firewall logs and analyzing connections that had been refused. (A machine that sends 10 000 packets to one IP address