RE: Long File Names for XyWrite

["Harrison, Shawn" Shawn_Harrison@xxxxxxxx]

R. Holmgren said:
.....
we've got to settle on a programming language to use, it's
got to be freeware, it's got to suit the programming capabilities of
XyWriters
(i.e. keep it simple), and it's got to be available in at least four
flavors (Unix,
OS/2, Dos16, and Win32) with the same syntax throughout. A tall order.
We're
certainly open to ideas, too, if anyone has any --
.....

Use Perl. It's about the most powerful text processing language out
there, and its syntax is no more difficult to learn than XPL (although
the philosophy is completely different).

Or, if you want an easy-to-look-at, powerful text processing language,
use Tcl.

Both of these languages are free, open source, and available on all of
the above-mentioned platforms.

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