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EDM/2 Wiki Articles

REXX

• The REXX Sourcebook by Dirk Terrell
• Enhancing VX-REXX with macros by Chris Angelico (July 2008)
• Tapping into the OS/2 Multimedia Structures with REXX by Armin Schwarz (January 2004)
• Loading RexxUtil at boot time by Gordon Snider
• Drawing a directory tree with REXX by Gordon Snider
• Pruning directory branches (How to delete a directory tree using REXX) (July 2001) by Gordon Snider
• REXX Tips & Tricks by Bernd Schemmer (1998)
• Identifying places and things by Richard K. Goran (January, 1997)
• REXX for Newies by Chris Wenham
  • Part I (October 1, 1998)
  • Part II (October 16, 1998)
  • Part III (November 1, 1998)
  • Part IV (November 16, 1998)
  • Part V (December, 1998)
• 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)
• REXX on OS/2 Warp Version 4 by Richard K. Goran (December, 1996)
• Happenings by Richard K. Goran (November, 1996)
• Customizing your latest OS/2 install by Richard K. Goran (October, 1996)
• Info-ZIP's UnZip REXX Interface by Richard K. Goran (September, 1996)
• Potpourri of REXX items by Richard K. Goran (September, 1996)
• OK, I wrote it, now what? by Richard K. Goran (July, 1996)
• LaunchPad Revisited by Richard K. Goran (June, 1996)
• What's an API? by Richard K. Goran (May, 1996)
• Parse this! by Richard K. Goran (April, 1996)
• Look What I Found On Warp Connect by Richard K. Goran (March, 1996)
• Tips and Tricks from Another Source by Richard K. Goran (February, 1996)
• Making things look pretty with REXX by Richard K. Goran (January, 1996)
• Sending Mail with REXX by Dave Briccetti (December 1995)
• Where goest my True Type fonts? by Richard K. Goran (December, 1995)
• Build It Your Way by Richard K. Goran (November, 1995)
• Advanced REXX Programming Topics by Charles Daney (1995)
• Common REXX Pitfalls by Charles Daney (1995)
• Solving REXX and OS/2 problems with REXXLIB by Charles Daney (1995)
• How to Do It in OS/2 REXX by Charles Daney (October 1995)
• Characters versus Lines by Richard K. Goran (October, 1995)
• The Joy of REXX by Dan Bridges (September 1995)
• REXX Techniques and Practices by Nicholas McGuigan (September, 1995)
• File System Functions by Richard K. Goran (September, 1995)
• REXX Events by Richard K. Goran (August, 1995)
• Tips & Tricks by Richard K. Goran (July, 1995)
• Creating and building your own LaunchPad by Richard K. Goran (June, 1995)
• Drag and drop with REXX by Richard K. Goran (May, 1995)
• A Brief Look at Personal REXX An overview of Personal REXX by Quercus Systems. By Gordon Zeglinski (April 1995)
• REXX Components by Richard K. Goran (April, 1995)
• Setting the Stage for Object REXX scripting by Mike Baryla (April 1995)
• Welcome new REXX Users by Richard K. Goran (March, 1995)
• What's new with REXX by Richard K. Goran (February, 1995)
• On the Road with Object REXX by Mike Baryla (January 1995)
• REXX Data Queues by Richard K. Goran (January, 1995)
• Extend Your Programs with REXX by Monte Copeland (January 1995)
• Arrays - sequential & associative by Richard K. Goran (December, 1994)
• Trap processing by Richard K. Goran (November, 1994)
• Answers to frequently asked REXX questions by Richard K. Goran (October, 1994)
• Introduction to object manipulation in REXX by Richard K. Goran (September, 1994)
• Using REXX as a macro language by Roger Orr (December 1994)
• 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)
• Calling C functions from Rexx by Roger Orr (July 1994)
• Open Scripting Architecture: Scripting for the Masses by Robert Tycast (Jun 1994)
• Working (and Playing!) with REXX and OS/2 Multimedia by Timothy F. Sipples (May 1994)
• TCP/IP Socket Programming in REXX by Patrick Mueller (February 1994)
• A Review of Personal REXX for OS/2 by Jonathan Story (February 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)
• Information on how to create WPS objects using REXX by Michael Lamb (1992)
• OS/2 Procedures Language - REXX by Roger Orr (December 1991)
• The REXX/imc Tutorial by Ian Collier

HTML - Web Design

• Hands on your home page by Simon Gronlund
  • Part 1 (16 September 2000)
  • Part 2 - Photos and images (16 October 2000)
  • Part 3 - Basic layout (16 November 2000)
• Building Dynamic Web Sites by Chris Wenham
  • Part I (May 2, 1998)
  • Part II (May 16, 1998)
  • Part III (August 16, 1998)
  • Part IV (September 16, 1998)
  • Part V (February 16, 1999)

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)
• An Introduction to Object Rexx by Rony G. Flatscher (2000)

EDM/2 Classic Articles

• 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)

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External Articles

• Tapping into the OS/2 Multimedia Structures with REXX by Armin Schwarz (January 2004)
• Creating Scripts to Automate Application Migration by Chris Clayton September 2003
• Rexx: The King is Alive and Well by Douglas Clark (March 16, 2003)
• REXX for beginners by Luc Van Bogaert (January 16, 2003)
• Objecting to databases by William F. Schindler
  • Part 1 (April 2000)
  • [Part 2]
  • Part 3 (July 2000)
  • Part 4 (September 2000)
• Learn REXX Programming in 56,479 Easy Steps by Jeff Glatt
• REXXShip for OS/2 by Timothy F. Sipples
• REXX Tips & Tricks by Bernd Schemmer (1998)
• REXX Techniques and Practice by Nicholas McGuigan
• Major points to know about REXX under OS/2 by Howard Fosdick
• REXX and the OS/2 Workplace Shell by Eric Giguère (Dr. Doobs) (December 01, 1993)
• * Six Rules of Thumb for Rexx by Raja Thiagarajan (7 Jun 1993)

Public Resources

• Creating Java Applications using NetRexx - IBM Redbook by IBM (September 1997)
• REXX Reference Summary Handbook by Richard K. Goran. CFS Nevada, Incorporated, Feb 1, 1995.
• 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.