
                    Programming/using OS/2 REXX      (echo)

                 Saturday, 30-Oct-1999 to Friday, 05-Nov-1999

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From: Eddy Thilleman                                    27-Oct-99 22:15:02
  To: David Noon                                        30-Oct-99 07:34:08
Subj: FrontDoor/Mailser and Re

Hello David,

24 Oct 99 20:33, David Noon wrote to Francois Massonneau:

FM>> 'inetmail' SemaMailer = SemaforeDir||'\'SemaFile

DN> I would use a concatenation operator (||) :

DN>    SemaMailer = SemaforeDir||'\'||SemaFile

Has the concatenation operator (||) advantages over the syntax '\'variable ?

Are there any differences, if so what are they?

  Greetings   -=Eddy=-        email: eddy.thilleman@net.hcc.nl

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From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard                         28-Oct-99 21:34:06
  To: Steve McCrystal                                   30-Oct-99 19:19:18
Subj: Leap year rules

 JP>> Of the three, the Revised Julian Calendar produces a Mean
 JP>> Calendar Year length that is closest to the current length of the
 JP>> Mean Solar Year.  Keeping the two the same length is, of course, the
 JP>> whole point of the intercalation of extra days ("leap days").

 SM> Thanks!  I *know* I saved it now... several times!

Don't forget to correct the typing error.  I wrote that the Julian calendar
was adopted in 8BCE when I meant to write 8CE.  (It was, strictly speaking,
adopted around half a century earlier, but 8CE is when they finally managed to 
get into the habit of implementing it correctly, as George White mentioned.)

  JdeBP 

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From: MIKE RUSKAI                                       30-Oct-99 19:55:00
  To: EDDY THILLEMAN                                    31-Oct-99 18:15:02
Subj: FrontDoor/Mailser and Re

Some senseless babbling from Eddy Thilleman to David Noon
on 10-27-99  22:15 about FrontDoor/Mailser and Re...

 ET> Hello David,

 ET> 24 Oct 99 20:33, David Noon wrote to Francois Massonneau:
 
 FM>> 'inetmail' SemaMailer = SemaforeDir||'\'SemaFile
 
 DN> I would use a concatenation operator (||) :
 
 DN>    SemaMailer = SemaforeDir||'\'||SemaFile

 ET> Has the concatenation operator (||) advantages over the syntax
 ET> '\'variable ? 
 ET> Are there any differences, if so what are they?

Easier to see what you're trying to do.  If you accidentally put a space
between the two, it becomes space concatenation (breaking the filename),
rather than abuttal.  If you stick with the concatenation operator, you'll
notice when a space is where it doesn't belong.  I *always* use them, even
to put a space in the string (string||' '||restofstring).  As a result,
I've never had a problem with problems due to undesirable concatenation
side-effects.  I have seen a few people posting here (and comp.lang.rexx)
who do run into those problems using space concatenation.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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From: Mod Rules Poster                                  01-Nov-99 00:00:03
  To: All                                               01-Nov-99 08:17:23
Subj: OS2REXX Echo Rules

Rev: Wed 8 Jan 97 21:34
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The Official Rules of The FidoNet OS2REXX Echo

The objectives of the OS2REXX echo are:

1. To provide a forum in which messages pertaining to programming in
   REXX under OS/2 can be exchanged, without the additional traffic
   generated by programming in other languages.

2. To provide technical support for newcomers to programming who have
   chosen REXX as their first language.

3. To allow the discussion of the more esoteric features of REXX, as
   implemented under OS/2.

The rules under which messages are to be exchanged in this echo are:

0. The preferred language is English, but this is not compulsory. Since most
   of the participants will be fluent in English, any problem reports will
   receive the widest scrutiny if they are written in English.

1. Real names only. No pseudonyms, "handles", "monickers" or aliases.

2. Relevance to topic. Posts should pertain to the programming in and use
   of REXX in the OS/2 environment. Other languages are on-topic if they
   are being used to create REXX extension DLL's and/or REXX
   subcommand handlers. Other platforms should only be discussed in the
   context of their interaction with OS/2 (e.g. Client/Server) or illustrating
   points via parallels in other platforms' implementation of REXX.

3. Advertising. A maximum of 1 advertisement per month by the
   author/publisher of software relevant to the topic of the echo will be
   permitted. Other products must NOT be advertised.

4. No flaming or abusive language will be tolerated. Also, excessive
   profanity is not permitted. Please remember the sensibilities of others
   before you upload that QWK packet.

5. Let the moderator do the moderating. Do not reply to "test" messages
   from BBSes that have just joined the echo. Do not reply to off-topic
   messages or flames. These will all be dealt with by the moderator.

6. You may post uuencoded, xxencoded or base-64 encoded message only with
   the prior approval of the moderator. When asking for approval please state
   the approximate size of the message, its content and usefulness to the
   other participants of the echo.

7. The OS/2 platform is deemed to be:
       Native OS/2, both text and PM;
       Virtual DOS Machine (VDM) session;
       Virtual Machine Boot (VMB) session.

   Any REXX program that will run under any of these conditions may be
   discussed.

   Note that if you need advice on how to set up a VMB image you should
   ask in the OS2DOS echo, not OS2REXX.

These rules will be revised, amended or appended to as needs arise.

Thanks in advance for your compliance.

David Noon
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From: Jan Danielsson                                    30-Oct-99 22:54:18
  To: George White                                      02-Nov-99 21:32:12
Subj: Leap year rules

 JdBP> (Created at the order of Gaius Julius Caesar and adopted around
 JdBP> 8BCE.)

 GW> Actually adopted in 46 BC, but leap years were implemented
 GW> incorrectly (the priests responsible put one every 3 years, not
 GW> every 4) until 9 BC, when the error was spotted. There were then no
 GW> leap years until 8 AD, when the every 4 years rule was implemented
 GW> correctly. 

   I would never have guessed that I would learn *that* in os2rexx! Learning
some more history is never wrong. :-)


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From: Tobias Ernst                                      03-Nov-99 11:43:16
  To: Jan Danielsson                                    04-Nov-99 05:31:04
Subj: Leap year rules

Hallo Jan!

 JD> -+- timEd/2 1.10

Get Artfix07.zip via f'req from my system or from the URL mentioned below, in
order to make your timEd year 2000 ready. It is really imperative that all
Timed users install this before the rollover.

Viele Gre,
Tobias

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