From sbr@halcyon.com Sun Oct 24 02:13:46 1993 Received: from halcyon.com (coho.halcyon.com) by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.4) id AA16871; Sun, 24 Oct 93 02:13:44 PDT Received: by halcyon.com id AA09841 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for announce@cs.ucdavis.edu); Sun, 24 Oct 1993 02:13:41 -0700 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1993 02:13:41 -0700 From: Stephen Rondeau Message-Id: <199310240913.AA09841@halcyon.com> To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: RexxVar Announcement Status: RO Dan: Here is another product announcement from AugmenTek, my company. The product is shipping. Thanks for your "moderation"! Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE RexxVar VERSION 1.0 COMPANY AugmenTek 3606 S. 180th St. C-22 SeaTac, WA 98188-4339 USA Contact: Stephen Rondeau Phone: 206-246-6077 email: sbr@halcyon.com DESCRIPTION RexxVar is a simple but powerful way of exchanging data between ARexx variables and any program that uses input and output files. The output from a command or program (including a meaningful error code) can be placed in either one ARexx variable or in a stem array, while the input to a command or program can be read from either an ARexx variable or stem array. For example, to sort the values in a stem array called "lines." (whose indices ranges from 1 to n, and n is in "lines.0"), one would type: Address REXXVAR 'Sort from REXXVAR:lines. to REXXVAR:sorted_lines.' The "sorted_lines." stem array would be created with an increasing integer index, starting at 1. The total number of "sorted_lines." values is placed in "sorted_lines.0". One can also sort words in a variable in a similar fashion. Substrings in a variable as well as stem array values can be delimited by any character (or none) on input or output. Support is also included for arbitrary (i.e., not necessarily numeric or increasing in order) stem index values. For example: indices = 'TED BILL' fullname.BILL = 'William' fullname.TED = 'Theodore' fullname.BOB = 'Robert' Address REXXVAR "Type from REXXVAR:fullname./nl/indices" will output only the values relating to the desired indices: Theodore William In combination with AmigaDOS commands and programs, this facility can provide a familiar and quick-coding means of importing and exporting file data (COPY command), passing data among AREXX programs (COPY command with PIPE:), listing of stem variable values (TYPE command), creation of stem arrays from variable values and vice versa (COPY command), extraction of environment variable values (GETENV command), editing of a variable's or stem array's values (your favorite editor), and more. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS * AmigaDOS/Kickstart(TM) 2.04 or higher PRICE RexxVar Facility and Online Documentation: $25 All prices are in U.S. currency. Shipping/handling is $3.00 in the U.S., $5.00 elsewhere. WA state residents add 8.2% sales tax. Terms are check or money order drawn on a U.S. bank and made out to AugmenTek. Sorry, no credit cards. DISTRIBUTABILITY This is a commercial product, and is not re-distributable.