Re: how do i do in Linux what i do so well in Windoze?

[Jeffery Douglas Waddell <jwaddell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

REXX (I assume that this is close to the same thing as AREXX ?) has been
ported to Linux:

http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/orexx/

Follow the Linux link on the main page.

Oh, and of course Gnome is all about OLE and components.

On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Steve Poling wrote:

-->Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:56:30 -0500
-->From: Steve Poling <sdp@iserv.net>
-->Reply-To: klug@klug.armintl.com
-->To: klug@klug.armintl.com
-->Subject: how do i do in Linux what i do so well in Windoze?
-->Resent-Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:50:50 -0500
-->Resent-From: klug@klug.armintl.com
-->
-->Here's a question that came up at work today concerning Linux vs Windows.
-->You know that Windows has this thing called OLE that allows an application
-->to share data with other programs and also to expose its functionality to a
-->scripting language such as VBA. Now, back when everyone whose now a
-->Microsoft hater was an IBM hater, the cool people all owned Amigas. And on
-->the Amiga, there was this wonderful scripting language called AREXX and what
-->AREXX did was pretty close to what OLE does.
-->
-->Now, my knowledge of Unix will fit into a thimble, tho i have a pretty good
-->grasp of generic systems architecture jive. But for the life of me, I can't
-->think of a Linux equivalent to OLE or an AREXX port.
-->
-->Sockets? Files & pipes?
-->
-->anybody got any opinions on the subject? Like what's the official Linux
-->answer to the "integration" capabilities of the M$ Office applications?
-->
-->is this a really obvious question and i'm like clueless?
-->
-->tia,
-->
-->sdp
-->
-->