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Date:	Thu, 5 Nov 1998 01:34:27 PDT
From:	dallasii@kincyb.com
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: RE:2pipes

>
> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 15:38:47 PDT
> Reply-To: scoug-programming@scoug.com
> From: Steven Levine
> To: scoug-programming@scoug.com
> Subject: SCOUG-Programming: Pipes\1b[1;33m2and\1b[1;33m2ReXX\1b[0m
>
> In , on 11/03/98
> at 02:29 AM, dallasii@kincyb.com said:
>
> >You direct LineIn() and LineOut() to file 'QUEUE:',
> >and replace any test for end of queue with Queued().
>
> I'd forgotten about QUEUE:.

I had just been looking at this stuff the other week.

> I tend to use PARSE PULL. QUEUE: is probably
> better because it will not "accidently" read from standard input.

The Schindler's agree with you on this!

>
> >'QUEUE:' is an under-documented feature. ;-)
>
> True. REXX.INF devotes 1 sentance to it. The only good IBM REXX
> reference I've found is the Bookmanager Book e04aba00.boo. It's complete
> and has a decent search engine.

I get the impression that maybe it isn't mentioned much
because it is incomplete.
The ':' on the end seems to hint that something should follow it -
but I haven't had any success with anything that seems logical.
I suspect the original plan was to have something like -

QUEUE:\

or maybe

QUEUE:

or

QUEUE:

or

QUEUE: or or who knows! :-)

and then maybe it wasn't supposed to need the Queue() function to
switch active queues. But of course, none of these ideas currently work!
It doesn't seem to work with the character I/O functions, a logically
consistent extension. Any ideas here?
There is is no mirror (or is there?) to RXQUEUE.EXE, to read from
a queue and output to a pipe. I suppose that could be written,
but I haven't gotten around to toying with it.
EUEUQXR.EXE

>
> Steven
>
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> Steven Levine MR2/ICE #10183
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Regards,
Dallas E. Legan II
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