On 2019 Jan 03 19:30:02, you wrote to me:
yes, it is very much based on ----/4OS2 scripting features...
You know the scripting language rexx, buildin any OS/2 ?
of course i do... so what? it is not easily transferrable to other
OSes but any OS that uses 4DOS and its derivitives can easily use the
posted script... besides that, 4DOS scripting is much easier to
understand and
Yep. I never learned REXX, because I wrote all my .BATs with 4DOS, and then with 4OS2 and 4NT/TCC.
yep! i learned enough of REXX to have some scripts that created launch icons for my bbs nodes... by creating them procedurally, i knew their name and so could trigger them procedurally as well... or just click on them... i had something for the mail tossing routine such that when it was running, a mailbox with mail in it was displayed... when it was not running, the mail box icon was invisible... it was pretty neat when i first did it... later, i removed it and just let the process run without trying to trigger the icon to show...
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