REXX Tips & Tricks:Sources

This section contains the main sources for REXX software and literature I know about.

Note that I removed the information about BBSe in Version 3.20 of RXT&T.

Note: Note that there's an INF file called IBM's Worldwide Electronic Resource Guide available which contains a lot of information about sources for (not only) OS/2 software and information. This file is available on every good site with OS/2 software, the filename is IBMWW.*. There's also an online version of this information available (see Internet - Web Pages).

Internet
Nowadays the Internet is the source for REXX software and information regarding REXX.

Note: A description about some interesting locations on the Internet can be found in the Frequently Asked Questions About REXX

Internet - WWW
Here are some Internet WWW addresses you can use to start your journey on the Internet (The date in parenthesis behind the description is the date I've checked this address last):

IBM APAR search engine (01/20/2002) This is the home page of the IBM Developer Toolbox (formerly IBM Developer Connection) (01/20/2002)
 * General IBM pages
 * http://ps.boulder.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj.pl?/pdocs-usa/support_line_electronic.html
 * http://service2.boulder.ibm.com/devcon/


 * REXX related IBM pages
 * http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/rexx This is the home page of IBM REXX (Nov 2003)
 * http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx This is the home page of the new NetRexx (Apr 2003)
 * http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/orexx This is the home page of Object REXX (Aug 1996 - Aug 2000)
 * http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/obj-rexx/ This is the home page of Object-Oriented REXX (Aug 2000 - 2008)


 * Other REXX related pages
 * http://www.cbel.com/rexx_programming_language/ List of about 220 REXX Related Links (05/03/2003) Some material was taken from the now defunct REXX FAQ maintained by Dave Martin
 * http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ian.collier/Docs/rexx_info/ REXX Tutorial from Ian Collier (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.rexxla.org This is the home page of the REXX Language Association (04/12/2003)
 * http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?dir=/pub/os2/dev/rexx Directory with REXX related archivs on Hobbes (04/12/2003)
 * http://archiv.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/rexx REXX directory of the LEO OS/2 Archive (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.toward.com/cfsrexx/ This is the home page of CFS Nevada, Inc., the company of Dick Goran (2008)
 * http://www.quercus-sys.com Home page of Quercus Systems (Personal REXX, REXXLIB, REXXTERM, REXX interpreter for OS/2, DOS, Windows xx, etc.) This home page also contains some very useful information about How do I ... in REXX and about some Common REXX Pitfalls. (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ian.collier/Rexx/ The home page of Ian Collier (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ian.collier/rexxla/sorting/ Webpage with various sort algorithms in REXX (04/27/2003)
 * http://www.rexx.org Home page of Mark Hessling (THE, REXX/SQL) (04/12/2003) and REXXSM2 - REXX SM/2 API from this page (01/20/2002)
 * http://www.oops-web.com/orxbyex/ Home page for ObjectRexx by Example (04/12/2003)
 * http://lafaix.online.fr/ Home page for RexxVio (05/04/2003)
 * http://www.davebsoft.com This is the home page of Dave Briccetti ; it's listed here because it contains two REXX sample programs: One to get usenet news articles using NNTP and sockets and the other to send mail to an email list with SMTP and sockets. (04/12/2003)
 * https://dennisbareis.com This is the home page of Dennis Bareis; you can download EADump, REXX2EXE a REXX "compiler", and PPWIZARD - a pre-processor from this page.
 * http://www.angelfire.com/wa/djawa Homepage of REXXGDB2 (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.nord-com.net/s.milcke/ Homepage of a monitor for the Winbond W83781D chip (04/12/2003)
 * http://home.att.net/~ASchw Homepage of AIMS RadioTrack FM Radio card REXX interface and REXX to access GPIB functions (IEEE488) (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.lestec.com.au Homepage of LesTec Pty Ltd, the author of REXXIO - REXX input/output library (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.pillarsoft.net/rexx/rexx.html Rexx Snippets and Code for OS/2 & VisPro/Rexx (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.rexswain.com/rexx.html Rex Swain's REXX Summary; useful information about REXX including source code (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.as-computer.de Homepage for the Notes REXX API (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Garage/3323/ Homepage for the Album of Algorithms and Techniques (04/12/2003)
 * http://tower.to.org/rexxsem Homepage for RexxSem - use semaphore in REXX (05/04/2003)
 * http://www.michelinakis.gr/Dimitris/ Home page for RxStocks (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.degeus.com/rexx/ A Web page with some usefull (free) REXX programs (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.vr-transport.de/Martin/deutsch/home.html Home page of Martin Vieregg; the author of ZipShell (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.interlog.com/~ptjm/ Home page of Patrick TJ McPhee; the author of Regina Rexx Math functions, RexxRE, OS/2 edition, and Rexx File Utilities (FileUt), RxHash
 * http://modrexx.sourceforge.net/ Home page of Apache Mod_Rexx Interface (2004)
 * http://www.rextags.org Home page of rexxtags (05/28/2003)
 * http://www.whitetown.com Home page of REXX cdblite interface ($) (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.rexx2nrx.com Home page of Rexx2Nrx (04/12/2003)
 * ftp://cbs-edu.chel.su/pub/Porro/Psion Download site for PsiFTP (see PsiREXX) (01/03/2003)
 * http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/ Homepage of Chris Wohlgemuth, author of CWHelp class, User control for DrDialog (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.lueckdatasystems.com Homepage of Lueck Data Systems. They offer a couple of open source Rexx / Object Rexx code libraries on-line. (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.warpdoctor.org Homepage of the WarpDoctor REXX Plug-In (04/12/2003)
 * http://purl.net/xyzzy/src/ Webpage with interesting REXX programs, for example a better REXXTRY, a comparison between different sort algorithm, and others. (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.netpassport.or.jp/~wnagaw Homepage of Kazuo Adachi, Author of RxCell, and RxComm (from Kazuo Adachi) (04/17/2003)
 * http://wi.wu-wien.ac.at/rgf/rexx/bsf4rexx/dist20030510 or http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsf4rexx Homepage of BSF4Rexx
 * http://pyzone.front.ru Homepage of PYRxUtil (06/20/2003)
 * http://www.grosse-coosmann.de/~florian/Hessling/GCI/index.html Homepage of GCI
 * http://rexxdw.sourceforge.net http://rexxdw.sf.net Homepage of REXX/Dw - cross-platform GUI for REXX


 * General WWW pages
 * http://xworkplace.netlabs.org Homepage for XWorkplace (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.os2usr.org/xcenter/ List of available plugins for the XCenter of XWorkplace (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.ansi.org ANSI home page (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.netlabs.org Very good site with OS/2 programs (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.edm2.com Online version of EDM/2 (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.commtalk.de Sehr gutes deutsches Diskussionsforum (incl. Library) nicht nur über OS/2 (04/12/2003)
 * http://www.os2bbs.com OS/2 Shareware BBS, Virgina (04/12/2003)

Source: Martin S. Hanoian

Internet - FTP
Here are some Internet FTP Sites you can use to look for REXX related files and tools (The date in parenthesis behind the description is the date I've checked this address last):
 * ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/os2_ews/ IBM FTP site with EWS software (04/12/2003)
 * ftp://crydee.sai.msu.ru/pub/comp/os/os2/sai/programming/languages/rexx-extensions FTP site with Touch function for REXX (04/12/2003 NOT AVAILABLE)

Internet - Newsgroups - Listserver
The following are addresses for USENET newsgroups and list servers with lists related to the topic of REXX (The date in parenthesis behind the description is the date I've checked this address last):
 * comp.lang.rexx REXX command language (12/23/2000)
 * http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html This page contains information about known list server. You can search here for LISTSERV lists regarding REXX through a interactive interface called "CataList". (04/12/2003)
 * http://groups.yahoo.com There are also some REXX related groups at this server (04/12/2003)

Sources for literature
This section contains information about sources for literature.

Germany
IBM Literatur Service Hans-Klemm-Straße 24 71034 Boeblingen Germany Fax: +49 (0) 130 / 7031 Phone: +49 (0) 711 / 785 5116
 * IBM Literatur Service

Falls Ihr beim IBM Literatur Service etwas bestellen wollt, laßt euch nicht von den Damen und Herren dort abschrecken. IBM liefert m.W. alle IBM Dokumente auch an alle die es haben wollen (gegen Rechnung)! Falls Ihr keine Kundennummer bei IBM habt, wird die Bestellung auf eine allgemeine Kundennummer dort gebucht.

Im großen und ganzen habe ich bisher mit dem IBM Literatur Service nur gute Erfahrungen gemacht - bei manchen der Damen und Herren, die dort die Anfrufe entgegen nehmen muß man aber hartnaeckig bleiben damit man auch das bekommt was man will!

Staak & Beirich GmbH Braubachstr. 36 60311 Frankfurt Germany Phone: +49 (0) 69 / 28 02 25
 * Staak & Beirich, Frankfurt

Staak & Beirich ist wohl die am besten sortierte Fachbuchhandlung fuer Informatik in Deutschland (insbesondere was englischsprachige Literatur angeht).

J.F. Lehmanns Glogauer Straße 6 10999 Berlin Germany Phone: +49 (0) 30 / 61 79 11 -16, -17 (international magazines -18, -19, -20 (German magazines) 0130 / 86 39 04 (Service) 0130 / 4372 (Bestellung) Fax: +49 (0) 30 / 6 11 50 15 EMail: bestellung@jf-lehmanns.de Internet http://www.jf-lehmanns.de/
 * J.F. Lehmanns

Publisher
Following is a list of all publishers mentioned in this documentation.
 * Addison Wesley
 * Aviar Inc.
 * AWi Inside Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (German)
 * CFS Nevada, Inc.
 * Verlag Heinz Heise GmbH & Co KG (German)
 * Hanser Verlag (German)
 * MacMillan Computer Publishing
 * Markt & Technik GmbH (German)
 * McGraw Hill
 * Miller Freeman, Inc.
 * New Riders Publishing
 * R. Oldenbourg Verlag (German)
 * Prentice-Hall
 * QED Publishing Group
 * Que Corporation
 * SAMS Publishing
 * Simon & Schuster
 * Van Nostrand Reinhold
 * John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
 * Whitestone

Magazines
Following is a list of all magazines mentioned in this documentation.
 * c't (German)
 * EDM/2 (Seems to be closed)
 * OS/2 Inside (German, Now part of the German Byte)
 * Inter REXX (Maybe Closed)
 * OS/2 Developer (Now Closed)
 * OS/2 Magazine (Now Closed)
 * OS/2 Professional (Now Closed)
 * Personal Systems (IBM)