ARexx for Workbench 1.3???

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Hello Folks,

Does anyone know where to get ARexx version 1.4 or 1.5 for Workbench 1.3? I am not even sure of the legalities of asking that, but, I own OS3.1 which comes with ARexx, but, I am looking to use it on my 1.3 A2000 but cannot find it anywhere.

I am obviously willing to pay for it if someone has it for sale. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

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*BUMP*

Anyone??? Any info at all???

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Hello,

I was considering actually trying to get in touch with William Hawes himself, I believe he lives somewhere here in Massachusettes if I am not mistaken. I honestly have no desire to copy the man's software illegally, I would be willing to pay for it. The terrible part is, I have it under OS3.1 and OS3.5, which I dont use, I like Workbench 1.3 and have been using it forever, and as I code C programs I would like to create some ARexx build scripts and add an ARexx interface to some projects that I am working on.

I will have to look into this I guess.

Thanks for the reply's though folks! :-D

Thanks,
Mike

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I beg to differ, I once owned ARexx v1.5 for the workbench 1.3, unfortunately I no longer have it. :-(

1.5 was, at the time, a separate product as ARexx was not integrated into Amiga OS until KS2.0.

Thanks,
Mike

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Hi Pete,

Yeah, I got the same address and his phone number as well, although, I think calling would be rather rude. ;-)

I am going to send a letter to his PO Box and see what happens, maybe in the interim I will find someone who wants to sell me thier old ARexx disk for 1.3. :-D

Thanks,
Mike

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Will-i-am wrote:
 Remember the ARP libraries? Same sort of story...

Oh yeah, I have the whole package installed on my 1.3 A2000 :-D

The only thing I am missing is ARexx. :-(

I'll keep searching, it's out there ... somewhere ....

Thanks,
Mike

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Hello Folks,

An update on this topic!!

I may have a solution, in the interest of carrying on the general hacking spirit that the Amiga has always fostered, and in the face of the sad fact that it looked as though I would never find a copy of ARexx for Workbench 1.3, I had an idea ...

I wondered if it was possible that things with ARexx had not changed from what was available on WB1.3 to WB3.1. That hunch paid off.

I created a floppy with a rexxc directory and copied the rexx libraries and RexxMast from my fully purchased Workbench 3.1 install floppies. I then started up WinUAE with a 1.3 WB and KS Rom image, loaded my "adf" arexx floppy, assigned REXX: df0:rexxc and copied the rexxsyslib.library and rexxsupport.library to LIBS:

I then started RexxMast and it started up without issue. I ran a small script:

/* test */

for i=0 to 9
j=i-1
say j
end

... and that worked fine. Apparently, things didnt change a whole lot with Arexx from when I purchased my ARexx 1.0 floppy back in the 80's to the version that was integrated with Workbench 2.04.

So, for anyone out there who wants to run ARexx on WB1.3 and can't find it anywhere, if you own Workbench3.1, you can just use that version on your 1.3 system, at least in theory, since I have not put this on my A2000 yet, just in WinUAE.

Hope this makes some people as happy as I am, and I am sorry for the long post.

Thanks,
Mike

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Yes!!!

Actually, I transfered all the files to my 1.3 A2000 and set it all up and it works great!!! :-D

Thanks,
Mike