Installing REXX

Note, MicroSoft has included a defective version of Regina REXX with the NT Resource Kit without attribution of sources. It is my understanding that this version should not be used.

If you do not have a REXX interpreter the Regina interpreter is free and widely used. Go to http://www.lightlink.com/hessling/Regina/ for general statements. The binaries and source can be obtained from http://www.lightlink.com/hessling/downloads.html

Under MicroSoft you will need to place Regina.DLL and Regina.EXE along your path. Its simple. I've done it.

There are other interpreters and some compilers. For example IBM provides a interpreter with OS/2 and they also make it available under Linux for free. They sell the NT version. This version is actually an object oriented variant of the language. If you think an object oriented "script" is funny, you will think that an parallel processing version is even funnier. By the way, it also exists and is commercially available. Information about the object oriented version is available at http://www-4.ibm.com/software/ad/obj-rexx/

If you want to learn more about REXX got to http://www.rexxla.org/, http://rexx.hursley.ibm.com/rexx/ and http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Garage/3323/links.html


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