It's been a lo-o-o-ng time, but ISTR that I had an internal function
that tried to convert it to Basedate and used Signal On Syntax catch
it, then return a boolean. But then, I can rarely remember where I
put my car keys these days ...
-Chip-
On 4/24/2025 10:45 AM, P.O. Jonsson wrote:
I have
nd this won’t work either ADDRESS UNIX ‘PATH=$PATH:newdir’ because again
> this only has effect for the duration of the ADDRESS command. Although to be
> honest, you might be able to get around that one by using ADDRESS UNIX
> ‘export PATH=$PATH:newdir'
>> On Feb 5, 20
ges the current environment, which is destroyed
> when the Address command returns. So without some sort of BIF there is no
> way to change directories.
>
> Sent by Magic!
>
>> On Feb 5, 2016, at 8:18 AM, Chip Davis wrote:
>>
>> Address UNIX
>> 'c
new directory (ever), see #2 below.
>
> Bert.
>
> Chip,
>
> The trouble with this suggestion is that a simple typo could *create* a
> new directory, which must then be manually deleted.
> Of course one could make the same mistrake with "mkdir" itself, but
> there
Didn't seem to work, unless you meant "... w/o Les' appended advert".
It certainly didn't prevent SF from appending one to your note... :-(
-Chip-
On 2/4/2016 7:06 PM, CVBruce wrote:
> Test Reply w/o advert
>> On Feb 4, 2016, at 6:45 AM, Les Koehler wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Moritz! Yes, that woul
IMHO this is a software blivet (Def: "50 kg of manure in a 40 kg bag").
The DIRECTORY() function is trying to do three things with the ability
to return only one string:
1. Return the current directory
2. Create a new directory
3. Change to a new directory
This is at least one operation
The DIRECTORY() function has never been in VM (not even if you have
SFS) because file system operations (as opposed to file operations)
have never been (and should never be) the responsibility of a
cross-platform language. Changing a directory is a "send a command to
whatever OS you're on" ope
I vote for 3 and 5.
Path 1 is the default if we cannot come to a consensus, or the issue
just fades away due to lack of an easy solution.
Path 2 makes matters worse by drawing attention to the (useless) feature.
Path 3 essentially deprecates a feature that duplicates existing
functionality by
OK, a couple of points:
HI, TS, and TE belong to the set of CMS "immediate commands", a
feature that goes 'way back to VM/370. Immediate commands provide an
asynchronous mechanism that allows the user to interrupt an executing
program and pass a command to it without the program issuing a read
Mark is right, of course.
Keep in mind that you are not passing '?' to Rexx per se; you're
passing it as the second argument to the shell, which reads the
shebang line at the top of your script and forks a child shell to run
the Rexx interpreter.
Meanwhile the shell has already processed the c
Actually Mark, I wasn't so much jerking your chain as venting (again)
about the moronic decision to allow the only consistently parse-able
separator (whitespace) to be allowed in an elemental name. UNIX
started that, of course, but like Ctrl-Alt-Del, it took Microsoft to
make it famous...
The
uh, Mark? This is Windoze we're talking about here.
Applications go into "Program Files", photos go into "My Pictures",
etc. Indeed, all user stuff goes into "My Documents" under the
userid's directory in (Ra help us) "Documents and Settings".
While I'll accept that the test suite might be co
emplate' object...)
But I guess it's pretty useless without the ability to drive cmdlets
from ooRexx. Too bad, Powershell seems to be significantly better
thought-out than DOS (that being a bar you could trip over).
-Chip-
On 12/3/2013 14:13 Mark Miesfeld said:
> On Tue, Dec 3,
I may be out in left field here, but I think Leslie is asking about
creating a Windows shortcut that invokes the Powershell instead of the
Command Prompt shell.
I'm interested in the answer as well.
In XP, when you Create Shortcut, it doesn't seem to give you any way
to specify which shell you
* DateJ2S - Convert Date from 'yyddd' to 'mmdd' */
Parse Arg yy =3 ddd .
Say Date('S',Date('B',19+(yy<=70)yy'0101','S')+ddd-1,'B')
Exit 0
-Chip-
On 11/30/2013 05:07 Staffan Tylen said:
> Yup, that seems to w
[Sorry, forgot to include the wrapping code]
Parse Arg yy +3 ddd .
Say Substr(Date('S',Date('B',19+(yy<=70)yy'0101','S')+ddd-1,'B'),3)
-Chip-
On 11/29/2013 14:53 Mark Miesfeld said:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Staffan Tylen
> mailto:staffan.ty...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I'm pl
Won't this work using the Standard date() function?
Say Date('S',Date('B',19+(yy<=70)yy'0101','S')+ddd-1,'B')
-Chip-
On 11/29/2013 14:53 Mark Miesfeld said:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Staffan Tylen
> mailto:staffan.ty...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I'm playing around with the date()
On 10/30/2013 12:12 Staffan Tylen said:
>
> The directory containing agtctl_i.c has to be in the include path,
> not the lib path.
>
> Aaah, silly me!
>
> No error messages so I guess it should be OK. ...
BWAH-hah-hah-haaa... If I had a penny for every
time I've said that! :-))
-Chip-
David is correct about the .0 tail of a stem: it's no different from
any other tail, except that EXECIO uses it (for DISKR operations only)
as a place to stash the number of the highest tail it created.
EXECIO does not pay any attention to it for DISKW, probably because it
doesn't trust us to h
You have _my_ gratitude and encouragement, Staffan!
Nearly all Committers start out as "just a user". When you are able
to make a valuable contribution, and learn to use the open source
management tools safely, you'll likely be invited to join their
vaunted ranks.
Don't worry, you know how pa
My view on this is that Staffan is definitively correct, and that
Mark's time/energy is much better directed at code matters.
This is not merely an academic issue; the syntax diagrams conflict
with reality (and the blanket rule). How is this any less important
than a typo in the method name in
Well, I don't know how "clever" it is, it just uses signal on syntax:
/* Date Validator */
parse arg format, date
signal on syntax name baddate
b = date('B', date, format)
return 1
baddate: return 0
Slightly modified for invocation from the command line:
C:\Documents and Settings\
Unless it's already documented as clearly as you've done here Mark,
this would make an excellent addition to the ooDialog reference, imho.
C.f. the flowchart describing the life-cycle of a Do-loop in the IBM
Classic Rexx Reference.
-Chip-
On 1/13/2013 12:33 Mark Miesfeld said:
>
> Here is the
On 1/9/2013 17:12 Mark Miesfeld said:
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Chip Davis <mailto:c...@aviatrexx.com>> wrote:
>
> On 1/9/2013 14:27 Staffan Tylen said:
> > Aah, it was that simple, don't know why it didn't make sense to
> me :(
>
On 1/9/2013 14:27 Staffan Tylen said:
> Aah, it was that simple, don't know why it didn't make sense to me :(
>
That is because the sentence has a "misplaced modifier", a chronic
condition in contemporary English. And when it comes to clarity,
there are few more insidious traps than the "only"
As a mere user, my experience is that the Esc key cancels whatever the
lowest level, multi-step, destructive operation currently in effect.
This is handy when you are dragging a big file and suddenly discover
that the place you want to drop it isn't visible.
If there are higher functions also i
On 1/5/12 17:26 Chip Davis said:
> Don't remember how realizability's was handled.
Stupid auto-correct: ^ :-/
-Chip-
--
Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don
on an individual window. Don't remember how realizability's was handled.
Thanks for all your explanations. I'll have to look at Lee's code
sometime. There's nothing like having a good example to learn from.
-Chip-
On 1/5/12 15:23 Mark Miesfeld said:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 a
Mark, the last time I wrote a dialog app it was in OS/2, so what I
haven't forgotten is not applicable. I'm enjoying following your
discussion here, regardless.
One of my pet peeves as a user, however, are non-resizable windows
that are ignorant of the current font size. Sometimes I use my la
Not so fast. Speaking as an unashamed grammar/spelling nag who was
eating, shooting, and leaving long before the book came out, this is
one case where the best rule is to go with what sounds most natural to
the ear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data et cetera
Robert is correct as to the or
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