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ABOUT THIS GUIDE:
ARexx command and function reference guide created December 20 1994 by:
Ernest Unrau, 261 Tulip St., Morden MB R6M 1H9, CANADA
E-mail: ejunrau@mts.net (alt., saskwatch@mts.net)
AX25 address: Inactive at present. Current callsign is VE4CJ.
This reference guide is Update Version 1.28, July 26 2007.
This document is freeware and may be freely redistributed as long as the copyright notice is left intact. It is not original other than design and concept, and is intended as an on-line reference tool drawn from the Commodore/Amiga International system software manuals. No warranty is expressed or implied with respect to its accuracy or fitness for use. It would be appreciated, however, that any errors or suggestions be reported back to the author/compiler.
Thanks to those who contributed ideas and tips to make this guide more effective; my apologies to anyone I may have missed:
- Stefan A. Haubenthal <stefan.haubenthal@web.de>
- Bernd Gollesch <bgollesch@sime.at>
- Guido Mersmann <geit@gmx.de>
- Christoph Gutjahr <c.gutjahr@gmx.de>
History:
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-version 1.28, 26-Jul-2007: Corrected nodes sort on instructions page.
-version 1.27, 23-Jul-2007: more formatting changes and improvements including: syntax documentation and undocumented defaults for BITAND(), BITOR(), and BITXOR(), TIME(), and TRACE().
-version 1.26, 19-Jul-2007: BITAND() examples; TIME() reformatted; SIGN() corrected;
SPACE() function expanded; digits argument available for D2C(); more option links
for trace(); examples for verify()
-version 1.25, 13-Jul-2007: minor changes, such as expanded NOP, PROCEDURE.
-version 1.24, 13-Jul-2007: added index link; updated d2x() and x2d() functions.
-version 1.23, 18-Mar-2007: updated contact info
-version 1.22, 01-Jun-2005: Added code module section
-version 1.21, 12-Apr-2005: fixed missing "'" in Translate() example code
-version 1.20, 30-Dec-2004: added example code for RXSET in RexxC section
-version 1.19, 35-Sep-2004: added "Tips" section
-version 1.18, 06-Sep-2004: Minor formatting changes
-version 1.17, 24-May-2004: fixed wording for Hash() function.
Example code for procedure, call(), parse
Tips for Call() and arg()
-version 1.16, 31-Mar-2004: clarified result returned for trace()
-version 1.15, 29-Mar-2004: typographic corrections on "about" page.
-version 1.14, 15-Jan-2004: minor syntax errors corrected.
-version 1.13, 08-Aug-2003: added example code to parse by position; changed function reference to four column layout instead of five to better fit screen.
-version 1.12, 21-Nov-1998: added instructions "PUSH" and "QUEUE". These were not included in the instruction section of the manuals that came with Workbench 2.05 but instead were appended, consequently these two commands were missed when compiling this Arexx Reference guide.
-version 1.11, 08-Feb-1998: minor documention errors corrected.
-version 0 (version number not included): completed first document Dec. 20, 1994