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EDM/2 Wiki Articles

• Enhancing VX-REXX with macros by Chris Angelico (July 2008)
• Extending OS/2 batch files by Roger Orr
  • Extending OS/2 batch files - Part 1 (October 1996)
  • Extending OS/2 batch files - Part 2 (December 1996)
• REXX inside and out by Joe Wyatt
  • REXX inside and out - File I/O (January 1996)
  • REXX inside and out - EDM/2 REXX utility library (February 1996)
  • REXX inside and out - Date() (March 1996)
  • REXX inside and out - Interpret (July 1996)
• Sending Mail with REXX by Dave Briccetti (December 1995)
• A Brief Look at Personal REXX An overview of Personal REXX by Quercus Systems. By Gordon Zeglinski (April 1995)
• Visual REXX Faceoff by Gordon Zeglinski
  • Visual REXX Faceoff - Part 1 Watcom's VX-REXX by Gordon Zeglinski (June 1994)
  • Visual REXX Faceoff - Part 2 Hockware's VisPro REXX/Bronze 2.0 by Gordon Zeglinski (July 1994)
  • Visual REXX Faceoff - Part 3 Hockware's VisPro REXX/Gold 2.03 by Gordon Zeglinski (October 1994)
• Using REXX as a macro language by Roger Orr (December 1994)
• Calling C functions from Rexx by Roger Orr (July 1994)
• REXX-ercising Your Applications By Gordon Zeglinski
  • REXX-ercising Your Applications - Part 1 Creating external functions and executing them from apps; intro to RexxStart(). By Gordon Zeglinski (November 1993)
  • REXX-ercising Your Applications - Part 2 More on RexxStart(), external command handlers and REXX macrospace. By Gordon Zeglinski (December 1993)
• OS/2 Procedures Language - REXX by Roger Orr (December 1991)

Presentations

• Advanced Rexx Workshop - How To Write Self-Healing Rexx Programs, (download) by Chip Davis (WarpStock 2004)
• Parse Rexx - Exposed!, (download) by Chip Davis (WarpStock 2004)

EDM/2 Classic Articles

• Dr. Dialog How to install and use Dr. Dialog, the Rexx GUI-builder. by Paul Floyd (January 1998)
• Building a REXX DLL in C This article shows how to build a DLL in the C programming language containing functions that can be called from REXX by Jorge Martins (October 1997)
• A Look at OREXX A commentary on poly.cmd, introducing concepts from ORexx as needed. Poly.cmd is a polynomial class of objects written by the author. By Gerald Goertzel (May 1996)
• REXX, The Developer's Best Friend This article focuses on one feature of OS/2 that can really help improve the way you build software, perhaps more than any other - REXX. By Paul Gallagher (March 1995)
• A Review of Personal REXX for OS/2 An indepth review of Quercus Sytems Personal REXX. by Jonathan Story (February 1994)
• TCP/IP Socket Programming in REXX This article shows how to write programs in REXX that access TCP/IP sockets. By Patrick Mueller (February 1994)

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External Articles

• An Introduction to Object Rexx by Rony G. Flatscher (2000)
• Working (and Playing!) with REXX and OS/2 Multimedia by Timothy Sipples
• How to Do It in OS/2 REXX by Quercus Systems (October 1995)
• Major points to know about REXX under OS/2 by Howard Fosdick

Public Resources

• Creating Java Applications using NetRexx - IBM Redbook by IBM (September 1997)
• OS/2 REXX: From Bark to Byte - IBM Redbook by IBM (December 1993)

Retail Books

• Rexx Programmer's Reference The first new book on Rexx from a major publisher in years. Covers everything Rexx in 686 pages, under $25.