The Handbook itself is a must-have for anyone who uses REXX in OS/2. It has reference information available nowhere else on
This site also has a good collection of OS/2 REXX related freeware and shareware, as well as a few other surprises.
This is the ultimate reference page for anything and everything related to REXX.
New to REXX and/or wondering what it's all about? Have a look at this tutorial for a good introduction. <--
Bill is a consultant with expertise in REXX and Windows NT, among other things. He is developing a line of function libraries to extend Personal REXX for NT. Bill wrote the material available here describing how to write REXX extensions. -->
Phantom is a software product for Windows and OS/2 that puts a graphical user interface on terminal based AS/400 and mainframe applications. It includes a bundled version of Personal REXX to support development of applications in REXX.
This paper by Les Cottrell of SLAC is an overview of using REXX to develop CGI scripts.
This is a tutorial presented by Bebo White at the 6th International REXX Symposium in May, 1995.
An example of a REXX CGI script for Goserve that enables use of the feedback.html form.
Marketing information on Hockware's VisPro REXX application development tool for OS/2. It links to Hockware's home page, for information about their other products (VisPro C, VisPro C++, and VisPro Reports).
Marketing information on Apical's GpfRexx application development tool for OS/2. A demo of the package is available here. Contains link to Apical's home page for information about their other products, such as GPF 2.1, a visual application devlopment tool for C/C++ in OS/2 and Windows.
Good information for current and prospective users of Watcom's VX-REXX application development tool for OS/2. The technical notes are especially interesting, as then include information on:
This book is especially interesting for its collection of real-world OS/2 REXX examples. Some of the special topics covered include usage of REXX with the EPM editor, SQL, DB2/2, and PostScript. It does not, however, have much material on REXXLIB or other Quercus Systems products.
InterSoft offers a shareware version of THEdit for Windows that uses Personal REXX for scripting. THEdit, by Mark Hessling, is also available for OS/2, Unix, and DOS. Its interface and command structure is patterned on Xedit (VM/CMS) and Kedit (OS/2, DOS, Windows).
There are many OS/2 resource pages out there. Here are a few of what we think are best. All of these should be both useful in content and frequently updated.
This is the TeamOS/2 home page, and the starting poing of a huge network of OS/2-related information.
This is one of the best list of OS/2 lists, covering WWW home pages, Gopher sites, IBM pages, FTP sites, and OS/2 news groups. The home page list includes a large number of user groups and personal pages.
IdeaFarm provides a new way to distribute and purchase software, which they call Meterware Services for OS/2. It also provides for writing and purchasing electronic books
We have found that this Web "robot" is one of the most effective at locating new pages (it found these pages before any others did), and is also one of the fastest and most easily accessible of the search engines.
Starting Point provides convenient access to multiple searching tools. It also has good indexes for the following categories: business, investing, professional, reference, travel, shopping, magazines, education.
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