Release 2.99 of uni-REXX is available now for Solaris Sparc and Intel, AIX, HP/UX, and Linux Intel and S/390.

New features of this release are:

• Large file support— 64-bit Input and Output for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and Win32. File offsets and sizes may now be up to 16 digits in length.

• Full 64-bit execution mode available. 64-bit object libraries provided for re-linking.

• Improved code reentrancy and thread safety to support multithreaded and multiprocessor REXX programs.

• Uses case sensitive comparison for in-memory program searches.

• Fixed possible sign error when dividing by -1.

• The "delete" command in the stream() function now returns "notready:"

• Added the RexxFreeString() function to free strings allocated by RexxStart().

• In Win32 environments stream(file,'c','query exists') now works when 'file' is a drive specification or a drive's root directory.

• Added the rxxusername([option]) function. Option characters may be:

  1. 'a' - Actual users name (UNIX only)
  2. 'e' - Effective user name (UNIX only)

  3. 'l' - login user name (UNIX only)

  Under Windows, the option is ignored.

• A number of fixes to output of the format() command.

• Added environment variables to specify the initial sizes of REXX compilation areas:

  1. REXXINITIALCODESIZE - initial code size, default 65504.
  2. REXXINITIALCONSTANTTABLESIZE - initial constant table size, default 65504.

  3. REXXINITIALSYMBOLCOUNT - initial number of symbols, default 500.

• On "transient" or "byte" streams, charin() will now block until the full read is complete.

• For Win32 environments, added new built in functions:

  WinGetProfile <inifile>, <section, <key> to get a value from a .ini file

  WinSetProfile <inifile, <section>, <key>, <value> to put a value into a .ini file

• Defining the environment variable REXXSTREAMOPENDEFAULTINPUT makes the default open type input, for compatibility with the stream() function prior to release 2.32.