Writing OS/2 REXX programs /
Ronny Richardson.
- New York : McGraw-Hill, c1994.
- xxiii, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 computer disk (3 1/2 in.).
- IBM McGraw-Hill series .
System requirements for computer disk: IBM-compatible PC; DOS; OS/2. Includes index.
Preparing to use REXX; language overview; program overview; writing simple programs; interactive REXX; communicating with the user; including non-REXX commands; string handling; arithmetic; logic testing and looping; built-in functions; using the REXXUtil dynamic link library; using the input queue; subroutines; user defined functions; error messages.
Devoted solely to the OS/2 version of REXX, this volume aims to give readers - even those who are new to REXX - the tools to construct programs of varying levels of sophistication. The book also covers debugging and associated programs such as REXXTRY, PMREXX and the REXXUtil Dynamic Link Library.