Overview
You have come to Mark Hessling's home page. As the domain name suggests, this site contains lots of information about the Rexx programming language.
This page primarily provides information on software packages that
I have written or maintain. The software I support is Open Source and free.
If you find the Rexx-related software I provide useful, please
consider joining the
Rexx Language Association .
To get more information on each product supported, click on the navigation bar to the left. Once you are on each product's home page, there are links to enable you to download the product, view the online documentation and to submit bug reports or feature requests. All of my products are now supported using the tools provided by SourceForge .
I will not be continuing to support any of my software on OS/2 in the future. I don't have reliable hardware that runs eCS 1.0 that I have, I am not going to purchase eCS as I don't use it, and the development environment is extremely frustrating for me. I spend 50% of my time trying to support OS/2 compared to all other platform combined, and it isn't worth the effort anymore. I apologise to anyone this inconveniences. If someone is willing to supply a current version of eCS then I will reconsider my position. (19 Aug 2006)
After discussions with Paul Smedley and support from Roderick Klein (Mensys) I have decided to continue OS/2 support for my software. Unless time permits, no OS/2 specific enhancements will be made, but I will endeavour to provide up-to-date ports of my software. (22 Sep 2006)
What's changed recently...
Dec 30, 2007
- Version 3.4 of Regina Rexx Interpreter released; finally!.
Oct 15, 2006
- Version 2.5 of Rexx/SQL released; finally!.
Oct 2, 2006
- This page was Pink for October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Sep 28, 2006
- Version 1.1 of Rexx/DW released.
Sep 21, 2006
- Version 2.4 of Rexx/Wrapper released. A Win32 installer is now supplied.
May 1, 2006
- Version 1.8 of Rexx/Trans released.
Jan 30, 2006
- Version 3.2 of THE released.
Oct 15, 2005
- Version 1.4 of Rexx/CURL released. This version brings support up to 7.15.0 of libcurl.
Jul 15, 2005
- Version 1.7 of Rexx/Trans released.
Jul 1, 2005
- Version 1.4 of Rexx/Curses released.
Jun 16, 2005
- Version 1.3 of Rexx/CURL released. This version brings support up to 7.14.0 of libcurl. The Windows installer installs rexxtrans.dll in the Windows System directory for improved sharing.
Dec 11, 2004
- Version 1.2 of Rexx/CURL released. This version brings support up to 7.12.1 of libcurl and fixes a few bugs.
Nov 7, 2004
- Version 2.0 of Rexx/gd released. This version adds more functionality including static GIF and animated GIF creation.
Oct 29, 2004
- Version 2.1.1 of Rexx/Tk released.
May 23, 2004
- Version 2.3 of Rexx/Wrapper released. This version fixes some bugs, adds support for building GUI programs under OS/2 and supports Open Watcom compilers on Win32 and OS/2.
May 8, 2004
- This site is now www.rexx.org after the acquisition of the rexx.org domain.
April 25, 2004
- Version 3.3 of the Regina Rexx interpreter has been released. This release now embeds Florian Grosse-Coosmann's Generic Call Interface (GCI). PARSE LOWER and CASELESS added. Local support for some BIFs also added. Some bugs and memory leaks fixed.
- The first beta release of Rexx/DW has been released. Rexx/DW is a lightweight, cross-platform GUI external function package.
June 3, 2003
- Version 2.4 of Rexx/SQL finally released. External operating system commands should now execute correctly. The MySQL port now works with recent versions of MySQL and supports transactions with BDB or INNOBASE tables. Should now link with correct DB2 library. SQLite support added.
April 5, 2003
- Version 3.1 of the Regina Rexx interpreter has been released. This has been a huge effort, particularly by Florian Grosse-Coosmann, in implementing the ANSI "ADDRESS WITH" extensionas and the LOSTDIGITS condition. As a result, we are confident that Regina 3.1 can now be considered compliant to the 1996 ANSI Standard.
January 5, 2003
- Version 2.1 of Rexx/Wrapper released. Added lcc-win32 as a supported compiler. Some minor bugs fixed.
