REXX Tips & Tricks

By Bernd Schemmer‎ & Peter Childs

• General Foreword
• General
• General hints for OS/2 & DOS commands
• General hints for REXX
• Hints for Object REXX
• Troubleshooting
• REXXUTIL functions
• Change the WPS with REXX
• Development Tools
• Sample source code
  • Using ANSI sequences
  • Date converting
  • Input & Output
  • Disk-, Directory- and File-Handling
  • Runtime tests & methods
  • IPC and process synchronisation
  • Variable handling
  • Sort algorithms
  • Mathematical routines
  • Misc. useful routines
• Sample programs
  • Sample source codeTemplate v3.08 for a REXX program
  • Sample programs based on TEMPLATE.CMD
  • Template for an installation program
  • General input line enhancer
• Sample source code for Object REXX
• Literature
  • REXX related Literature
  • Object Rexx related Literature
  • NetRexx related literature
  • Non-REXX related literature
• Additional Software for REXX
  • Development & Debugging Tools
  • WPS Tools
  • PM Tools
  • Misc. Tools
  • Application Program interfaces
  • BBS & Mailboxes
  • CM/2
  • Compressing & Decompressing
  • Crypting and Checking
  • Database
  • Data Converting
  • Date & Time
  • File & Disk I/O
  • Graphic & Printing
  • Communication & IPC
  • Mathematics
  • Regular Expressions
  • Miscellaneous
  • LAN / NetBIOS
  • LAN / Netware
  • LAN / TCP/IP
  • REXX Language Extensions
  • Serial Communication
  • Sound
  • System
  • Text I/O
  • REXX Interpreter & Tools for DOS
• Sources
• Miscellaneous
• Non-REXX related information
• EMail addresses...
• REXX & OS/2 online help