Rexx File Utilities (FileUt)

Name     Rexx File Utilities (FileUt)
Version  1.0.1
Author   Patrick TJ McPhee 
         (see EMail Addresses)
Distrib. Freeware 
Type     REXX DLL 
Price    -
Note     w/ source 
Source   Internet 
         Name: rexxfile101.* 

Description from the author: 

"FileUt is a set of functions which provide special kinds of file handling 
to rexx programs, roughly following the Rexx IO model.  It gives functions 
filelinein, filelineout, filecharin, and filecharout, which work 
essentially the same way as the standard linein, lineout, charin, and 
charout functions, except they read and write special kinds of files. 

In version 1.0, the library provides access to the standard input and 
output streams of running processes using pipes.  The effect is much like 
the pipe operator in awk.  In the future, it will possibly include access 
to various file archives and files compressed with gzip. Note that three 
years after the initial release, I haven't felt the need to do any of 
this." 

The DLL exports the following functions: 

   *  value = filelinein( command[,[line][,[count]][,stream]] ) 
   *  count = filelineout (command[,[string][,line]] ) 
   *  value = filecharin( command[,[line][,[count]][,stream]] ) 
   *  count = filecharout( command[,[string][,line]] ) 
   *  handle = fileopen( command, how ) 
   *  rc = fileclose( command[,stream] ) 
   *  count = filelines( command[, stream] ) 
 

 Please note that I did not get this DLL to work as of 05/06/2003. I 
 already asked the author about this. He will look into it as soon as 
 possible.