I can still not run NRC from the console...

[Thomas.Schneider.Wien]

Hello Kermit, David, & all,

   I am still *very upset*.

I cannot run the NetRexx Compiler from both my DeskTop and my NetBook
anymore.

I did have a prompt of  cmd>   (for years)

and did have to enter only:


cmd>nrc PLIERR.nrx


only to compile this program.

NOW; I'm getting *nothing back* (it does show me only my desktop) ..

Hence:

David, Kermit, are you actually changing the *behaviour* of The NetRexx
Compiler
(c) Mike F. Cowlishaw, on the FLY, or what might be the reason
that *nothing* does work as in  the past 8 years on my computer(s)..... ??

Very frustrated, this time.
Thomas Schneider.
.

[David Requena]

Thomas,

There is no way in which Kermit's plugin or mine could possibly interfere
with an existing installation of NetRexx. We are
supplying a copy of NetRexxC.jar and not touching anything outside of the
jEdit environment.

That said, lets try to be more specific regarding the issue at hand. So you
have a command prompt window open, right?
Is this a command.com window or a cmd.exe based one? There'are significant
differences in how these two handle batch files.

Ok you just should forget about command.com altogueter in XP. Just to be
sure you're working on the correct one type "cmd" to get a new command
prompt.
Now you change current directory to the one you believe you are actually
running nrc.bat.
Type exactly ".\nrc.bat" followed by the path to your nrx file.

What do you see exactly? The window disappears? some little error text? the
prompt advances to the next line but nothing is printed? maybe this way it
worked?

2010/2/10 Thomas Schneider <[hidden email]>

> Hello Kermit, David, & all,
>
>  I am still *very upset*.
>
> I cannot run the NetRexx Compiler from both my DeskTop and my NetBook
> anymore.
>
> I did have a prompt of  cmd>   (for years)
>
> and did have to enter only:
>
>
> cmd>nrc PLIERR.nrx
>
> only to compile this program.
>
> NOW; I'm getting *nothing back* (it does show me only my desktop) ..
>
> Hence:
>
> David, Kermit, are you actually changing the *behaviour* of The NetRexx
> Compiler
> (c) Mike F. Cowlishaw, on the FLY, or what might be the reason
> that *nothing* does work as in  the past 8 years on my computer(s)..... ??
>
> Very frustrated, this time.
> Thomas Schneider.
> .
>
>
>

--
Saludos / Regards,
David Requena
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[David Requena]

I have an impression your system is not executing nrc.bat but nrc.cmd which is also included with netrexx but which is an OS/2 script.

The visible effect of executing nrc.cmd in windows is that the shell immediately exits so the window closes. But as you refuse to tell us 'exactly what you see' I can only guess...

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[David Requena]

Well Tom,

Nobody said it was particularly difficult.

But it's certainly nor working as supplied and documented any longer since, precisely, Java 1.6_U18.

Pity nobody can do anything about it at the moment but at least it is now common knowledge at the list.

Regards,
David

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[Tom Maynard]

David Requena wrote:
> Nobody said it was particularly difficult.
>
> But it's certainly nor working as supplied and documented any longer since, precisely, Java 1.6_U18.
>
>  
My experience was that it goes pretty much according to the NetRexx book
-- the only "undocumented" change was the small mod to NetRexxC.bat to
remove the heap limits -- otherwise it works as it always did.

I didn't do a lot of testing, but I have the feeling that NetRexxC.bat
worked even if it generated an error message -- it just bothered me
enough to hunt it down and correct ie.
> Pity nobody can do anything about it at the moment
I presume you mean because NetRexx is moving to open source and as a
result is somewhat "frozen" in the meantime.  But, as you say, at least
the workaround is known on the list -- that should be enough.

Tom.

[David Requena]

2010/2/11 Tom Maynard <[hidden email]>

> David Requena wrote:
>
>> Nobody said it was particularly difficult.
>> But it's certainly nor working as supplied and documented any longer
>> since, precisely, Java 1.6_U18.
>>
>>
> My experience was that it goes pretty much according to the NetRexx book --
> the only "undocumented" change was the small mod to NetRexxC.bat to remove
> the heap limits -- otherwise it works as it always did.
>

That wouldn't quite be "the REXX way" of looking at it, would it?
We can refer to the issue however we fancy.
The fact is some bits in the current reference implementation distribution
(the scripts, and docs) became outdated by changes to the underlying
environment (java virtual machine). Yet another way :-).
Any potential new user downloading this will be reading documentation, will
follow suit, and find that step 3 in "Testing the NetRexx Installation"
section at the NetRexx User's Guide fails.


> I didn't do a lot of testing, but I have the feeling that NetRexxC.bat
> worked even if it generated an error message -- it just bothered me enough
> to hunt it down and correct ie.
>
>
It doesn't. The NetRexx translator itself works as always but the scripts
plainly don't work.


>  Pity nobody can do anything about it at the moment
>>
> I presume you mean because NetRexx is moving to open source and as a result
> is somewhat "frozen" in the meantime.  But, as you say, at least the
> workaround is known on the list -- that should be enough.
>
>
I don't think these are related at all. NetRexx pages at IBM were
outdated/''non maintained' long before the open source announcement. Look at
the links area; most of these links have been dead for ages

--
Saludos / Regards,
David Requena
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