GpfRexx

GpfRexx is a REXX visual development environment, it was supplied in two versions, standard GpfRexx and GpfRexx Professional that bundled the optional GpfRexx Tools Extensions toolkit with the GpfRexx product, but that package could also be bought separately as an add-on.

Because it traces its origins to Gpf it has a look and feel that is somewhat stuck in OS/2 1.x PM/Windows 2.x days and was looking archaic even in the mid 90s, underneath is quite a capable REXX development system with a robust support for threads and multimedia applications that is missing from other visual REXX products.

Versions

• Last known version: GpfRexx v1.2 (1998)

Introduces support for OS/2 Warp Version 4 style notebooks.

Known issues

• GpfRexx 1.2 (and presumably older versions as well) has a tendency to show screen corruption on badly behaved GRADD drivers such as the ones shipped with some versions of VirtualBox, this is a video driver issue rather than a GpfRexx problem and more of an irritant than a showstopper. You can refresh the corruption by moving the Gpf windows around.

Links

• Homepage (archived)

Links & publications

Reviews

• Gabrielle Gagnon: Visual REXX tools - A comparison review for VX-REXX, GpfREXX and VisPro/REXX - From PC Magazine, July 1996
• A review of GpfRexx from the OS/2 Voice Newsletter

Licence

• Commercial software, has been discontinued since about 2013.
• Original price list from 1997 onwards:

GpfRexx 1.2 $45US

GpfRexx Tools Extensions $25US

GpfRexx Professional (GpfRexx and GpfTools) $59US

Author

• Jean-Bernard Clerin