
                    Programming/using OS/2 REXX      (echo)

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From: Jack Stein                                        01-Dec-99 18:36:03
  To: All                                               11-Dec-99 06:20:19
Subj: REXX Babble November Part 1 of 1

                               Part  1                               
                    The OS/2 REXX BabbloMeter Report                    
      Monthly Babble received in OS2REXX at Jack's Free Lunch BBS       
                           November, 1999                            

                    15 users babbled 49 Messages                     

Outbound Babble        %     K   Avg K | Incoming Babble         %
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 10 PETER KNAPPER    20.4%   14k   1.4 |  10 ALL               20.4%
  7 EDDY THILLEMAN   14.3%   13k   1.8 |   9 PETER KNAPPER     18.4%
  6 JONATHAN DE BOYN 12.2%   18k   3.0 |   6 DAVID NOON        12.2%
  4 HARRY BUSH        8.2%    7k   1.8 |   4 MIKE RUSKAI        8.2%
  4 MIKE RUSKAI       8.2%    9k   2.2 |   4 EDDY THILLEMAN     8.2%
  4 DAVID NOON        8.2%   12k   2.9 |   3 HARRY BUSH         6.1%
  3 FRANCOIS MASSONN  6.1%   16k   5.4 |   3 GEORGE WHITE       6.1%
  2 LARRY SNIDER      4.1%    3k   1.5 |   2 TOBIAS ERNST       4.1%
  2 TOBIAS ERNST      4.1%    2k   1.2 |   2 FRANCOIS MASSON    4.1%
  2 GEORGE WHITE      4.1%    4k   1.8 |   1 LARRY SNIDER       2.0%
  1 ROY J. TELLASON   2.0%    2k   2.1 |   1 ROY J. TELLASON    2.0%
  1 SERGEY POPOV      2.0%    1k   1.1 |   1 SERGEY POPOV       2.0%
  1 JAN DANIELSSON    2.0%    1k   1.1 |   1 JONATHAN DE BOY    2.0%
  1 WIM BIJLENGA      2.0%    1k   0.9 |   1 WIM BIJLENGA       2.0%
  1 JACK STEIN        2.0%    2k   1.7 |   1 JAN DANIELSSON     2.0%

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From: David Noon                                        10-Dec-99 20:13:05
  To: Eddy Thilleman                                    11-Dec-99 06:20:20
Subj: Pipes and queues

Hi Eddy,

Replying to a message of Eddy Thilleman to All:

 ET> Ah, I see I can give the queue a name with rxqueue(). But I am not
 ET> sure about how to use a named queue from a plain batch file.

 ET> is a queue also a pipe? I ask this because I see the pipe symbol.

No, the pipe symbol tells CMD.EXE or 4OS2.EXE to create an unnamed pipe to
pass the stdout stream to RXQUEUE.EXE. This program then makes the data stream 
available to the REXX program through the QUEUE: device. The REXX queue itself 
is not a pipe, though.

The name of a named REXX queue is known only to the REXX program that created
it and the instance of RXQUEUE.EXE that was started by that REXX program. Your 
batch program does not need to know the name of the queue.

If you use a named pipe instead, you use it like a file. In that case, you
open the pipe by its name, or have the command shell redirect a program's
stdout to it or stdin from it, and either read it or write in your REXX
program using any of the file stream functions, or .STREAM objects in OREXX.

Regards

Dave
<Team PL/I>

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