Date:  Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:36:27 -0300
From:  "Mark Dodel" <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: Regina REXX 3.3


From: "Mark Dodel" <madodelDESPAM at ptdprolog.net> 

 "An implementation of the the ANSI Standard REXX Programming Language,
available for most operating systems."

 2004-04-24 Regina REXX 3.3 released.

 Web site: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/regina-rexx/>
 Download OS/2 version:
<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/regina-rexx/rex33os2.zip?download>

Changes in this release (from 3.2)
----------------------------------
 o Integration of Florian's Generic Call Interface (GCI) into Regina.
   Supported platforms to date are Windows, OS/2 and Linux.
 o Fixed bug with TRACE F and its "conversion" into "N" on a subsequent
call
   to TRACE BIF.
 o Addition of Polish native language support courtesy of Bartosz
Kozlowski.
 o PARSE LOWER and PARSE CASELESS added.
 o Major changes to EXIT handling
 o Regina determines internal and external queues by the fact that
external
   queues MUST have a ' at ' in the name. Therefore any time a queue name is
   used; in RXQUEUE or ADDRESS...WITH, then if the queue name has a ' at '
   then Regina treats this as an external queue, and requires the RXSTACK
   server to be running.
 o New BIF POOLID. Allows the current variable pool number to be obtained
   (effectively the level of called subroutines).
 o VALUE BIF allows environment to be a number corresponding to a variable
   pool number. Therefore unEXPOSEd variables in any subroutine can be
accessed.
 o API functions Rexx*Dll() now implemented.
 o Locale support for BIFs like TRANSLATE now supported, and can be
overridden 
   from command line. (-l switch)
 o Algorithm for determining where a Rexx program is (either from command
line, or
   a CALL statement called.  Apart from a change in the precedence of
directories
   an environment variable REGINA_SUFFIXES is used to supplement the file
extensions
   that Regina uses to append to the passed file name. More details can be
found in the
   Regina documentation.
 o Regina OPTIONS can now be specified as an environment variable, which
will set the
   default values for OPTIONS. The OPTIONS instruction can still be used
and will
   override the defaults.
 o A new OPTION has been added; CALLS_AS_FUNCS to allow programs that use
the non-ANSI
   format of "CALL label(arg1,arg2)". Although this is implemented as an
OPTION, it can
   only be set via the REGINA_OPTIONS environment variable!
 o Another new OPTION; QUEUES_301 to duplicate the behaviour of Regina
queues; both 
   internal and external.
 o Some memory leak fixes with INTERPRET and some "handle leaks" under
Windows fixed.
 o Initial support for SkyOS
 o Fixed some old bugs: (documented in BUGS file)
   19991216-29512, 20000319-63722, 36

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