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Re: [Oorexx-devel] A question ad ADDRESS ...
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From: <rvj...@xs...> - 2007-01-24 18:48:51
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I seem to remember that TSO's default environment is TSO One of the reasons for this misconception is probably that I never =20 used it; I used ADDRESS ISREDIT a lot So it is probably a moot point. Ren=E9. On 24-jan-2007, at 19:06, Rick McGuire wrote: > CMD as an address environment dates back to OS/2, when CMD.exe was =20 > the target command shell. This got copied for Windows, but never =20 > really made any sense for the linux environments. On VM, you used =20 > either CMS or COMMAND, depending on the type of search order you =20 > wanted used. Not sure what TSO uses, but I'm pretty sure it's not =20= > CMD. > > Rick > > On 1/24/07, Ren=E9 Jansen <rvj...@xs...> wrote: > the default shell for the Mac is also bash > > it used to be tcsh in earlier releases of OS X. > > I have to admit that I also was under the impression that CMD stood =20= > for the current shell, just like a quoted command goes to the =20 > current shell. Actually, it could be a default when you are trying =20 > to write simple portable things that are not addressing a specific =20 > shell. > > Ren=E9. > > On 24-jan-2007, at 18:12, David Ashley wrote: > >> >> All - >> >> The Unix versions of ooRexx do NOT use the CMD shell (there is no =20 >> shell named CMD in any Unix). The default shell for Linux is bash =20 >> and the default shell for AIX is korn. I am not sure about Solaris =20= >> or the Mac. >> >> I have been thinking that this should be user configurable. There =20 >> are a few other things about ooRexx where it would be nice to =20 >> allow the user to configure certain environmental things about =20 >> ooRexx (the defaults). But as yet I am not sure that ooRexx really =20= >> needs this. Right now I believe it would be just a "nice to have" =20 >> feature. >> >> Thanks, >> W. David Ashley >> IBM Systems and Technology Group Lab Services >> Open Object Rexx Team >> Office Phone: 512-838-0609 T/L 678-0609 >> Mobile Phone: 512-289-7506 >> >> >> >> "Rony G. Flatscher" < Ron...@wu...> >> Sent by: oor...@li... >> 01/24/07 10:21 AM >> Please respond to >> Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List <oorexx-=20 >> de...@li... > >> >> >> To >> Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List <oorexx-=20 >> de...@li...> >> cc >> >> Subject >> [Oorexx-devel] A question ad ADDRESS ... >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Hi there, >> >> while testing Mark Miesfeld's Debian package with the ooRexxUnit >> testUnits I saw failures on two occasions linked to using "ADDRESS =20= >> CMD >> some_text". It turns out that under Ubuntu one needs to use "ADDRESS >> bash some_text" instead. >> >> Somehow I have been under the impression that "ADDRESS CMD" would =20 >> mean >> "address the shell", independently of the operating system the =20 >> program >> runs. Has this been a misconception all those years for me? >> >> --- >> >> Ad solution: of course I could leave out "ADDRESS environment", as a >> string only will be sent to the current environment. This would mean >> that under Windows I would use "CMD" and otherwise I would get the =20= >> value >> of "SHELL", grab the last word in the slash-delimited path to the the >> shell program and use that value to set the environment (making sure >> that it gets restored to its previous state by using the result of =20= >> the >> ADDRESS() function). Any comments on this approach? >> >> Regards, >> >> ---rony >> >> P.S.: Will adjust the testUnits and update the repository later. One >> addition will be the hash bang line, but for that to work under Linux >> the testUnits need to use LF only instead of CR-LF which is the =20 >> default >> end-of-line sequence of characters under Windows. >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------=20= >> ---- >> Take Surveys. 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