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On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:23:50 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:
> I'm curious if rexx is as powerful as 4DOS. The latter is quite a bit
> slower than regular command.coms because it's all built right in there
> too, but it could be that pcdos did it a bit better.
Rexx is not a shell, rather a programming language. It does not use a
compiler. The interpreter is builtin into system or added in on other
systems. Most of IBM's operating systems and Amiga had it builtin.
Example: dll system files in os/2
Cal
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