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Started by hausmaus, 2007.06.05, 08:23:43

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hausmaus

I happened to be digging through some CDs I came into possession of a few years ago (I've just moved and am unpacking) and lo and behold, I have a full installation of VX-REXX.  I'd been putting off learning REXX, although I have three excellent books on how to program in REXX.  Now that I have VX-REXX, I'm more interested in learning it, especially since I just moved my BBS machine to eCS 1.2MR and am planning on purchasing eCS 2.0 when it is released.

Does anyone have any good books about VX-REXX that they would recommend?  I have a book about REXX by Ronny Richardson and I found one by him at Amazon.  I like his book I have now and am wondering if this other book by him would be good.

I'm particularly interested in learning REXX for my specialized uses (such as writing a decent terminal program for use with telnetable BBSes and a MU* client) and I'm trying to get started off on the right foot.

For the record: I'm not interested in porting these to any other platforms as I'm mainly wanting to write these for my own personal use (I'll probably release them though for public consumption later).

Any and all help is appreciated.

--Sean

Terry

Thanks to the wonders of eBay, I have "VR-Rexx Client/Server Edition" and the manuals included with program are really well-documented.  Also, from eBay bidding, Ronny Richardson's, "Writing VX-Rexx Programs" is a gem along with the book's cd supplied with many Rexx routines, vrobj.dll, and Icon Ease along with a supply of icons.

You might check out the original EDM/2 website at http://www.edm2.com/common/issues.html for the VX-Rexx review http://www.edm2.com/0206/vrexx.html along with the other Rexx programming articles.

hausmaus

Thanks for the URLs, I appreciate it.  I am supposed to be learning PHP and MySQL for work, but my boss (who is a very good friend of mine) said that if I felt more comfortable using REXX, he'd put REXX on the Linux box that is of particular interest for me.  At work, on every shift, we have to take readings on equipment and right now, the template we use is about four pages long.  The idea is that we want to create a MySQL-based CGI that we can run from a Palm via the local intranet and store all the data in a MySQL database.

I know I've seen REXX APIs for both CGI writing and dealing with MySQL; I have to first bone up on REXX and then start doing the CGI stuff.

Again, thanks for the help.

--Sean