Re: [netrexx-pipelines] Migrate OS/2 pipelines to NetRexx Pipes

[Rony G. F. <Ron...@wu...>]

Hi Mike,

On 6/8/2022 1:46 AM, hp...@we... wrote:
> Am 07.06.2022 um 14:30 schrieb Rony G. Flatscher:
>> Hi Mike,
>> [...]
>> If you have BSF4ooRexx installed
>
> I have not yet... sorry -- and same time thank you for your
> detailed advice -- but as I described before, I refuse to install
> ooRexx 5.00 Beta 5840 (or above already?). But... since I have
> more than one PC available, I can't say NO! so harsh and impolite
> when others are so kind and help, so I'll give it a try on one
> machine. Tomorrow.

Maybe one more thing: the current version of BSF4ooRexx is supposed to work with ooRexx 4.1 and 
higher. If it does not, then it is to be regarded as an error in the current GA release of 
BSF4ooRexx! If you find such errors please file a bug with a small sample at 
<https://sourceforge.net/p/bsf4oorexx/bugs/> (if going there, yes, currently there are no known 
bugs!). This may be possible as my testing with pre-5.0 interpreters (due to time restrictions) has 
become limited (e.g. it may be the case that here and there 5.0 features got introduced by mistake).

Ad release and supported minimum versions of ooRexx and Java: one can infer that from the naming, 
the current GA version of BSF4ooRexx is named: "BSF4ooRexx-641.20220131". So here the deciphering in 
a rexxtry session:

    *ver="BSF4ooRexx-641.20220131"*
       ........................................... rexxtry.rex on WindowsNT
    *parse var ver "-" nums '.' reldate*
       ........................................... rexxtry.rex on WindowsNT
    *say "release date:" reldate*
    release date: 20220131
       ........................................... rexxtry.rex on WindowsNT
    *say "minimum ooRexx version:" nums//100*
    minimum ooRexx version: 41
       ........................................... rexxtry.rex on WindowsNT
    *say "minimum Java version:" nums%100*
    minimum Java version: 6
       ........................................... rexxtry.rex on WindowsNT
    *call bsf.cls*  /* load the ooRexx-Java bridge */
       ........................................... rexxtry.rex on WindowsNT
    *say .bsf4rexx~display.version*  /* show the exact versions of ooRexx, BSF4ooRexx, Java, operating system in effect */
    ooRexx 5.0.0 r12376 (21 Apr 2022) / BSF 641.20220131 / Java 17 (released: 2021-09-14), 32-bit (x86) / Windows 10.0.19043

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Also, one, two things you might want to know:

  * it is possible to run ooRexx 5.0 without installation, if no older Rexx is installed. Just add
    the ooRexx bin directory to the PATH environment variable or use a batch file that does that for
    a specific session,

  * ooRexx 5.0 introduced the ability to run 32- and 64-bit ooRexx interpreters in parallel without
    inhibiting each other! It is also possible to run different revisions of ooRexx 5.0 in parallel.

HTH,

---rony