ftpsynch.rex

Many OS/2 SAAREXX programs work almost as is under WindowsNT ooRexx, the RexxUtil functions are similar, the WindowsNT CMD shell is similar, and the RxSock interface is almost identical. Some OS/2 RexxUtil functions are not yet or not more supported under WindowsNT, e.g. SysGetMessage, SysProcessType, and SysQueryProcessCodePage.

Scripts I've tested under W2K after renaming *.cmd to *.rex include popstop2.cmd, dir2html.cmd, and sitemap.cmd.

Unfortunately ooRexx doesn't come with RxFTP.dll, but it offers the RxFTP.cls class. I've created a new ftpsynch.rex based on ftpsynch.cmd for ooRexx, for details see ftpsynch.htm.

rxwhois 2.0.5

Version 2.0.5 of rxwhois.cmd now also works as WindowsNT ooRexx script, just rename it to rxwhois.rex. I've adopted additional local character sets from utf-8.cmd including codepage 923 (ISO 8859-15, Latin 9) and 878 (KOI8-R), but I've only tested 858 (pc-multilingual-850+euro) and 1252 (windows-1252).

As always some whois-servers for ccTLDs had to be updated, for details see the source. After a system crash of my OS/2 box in June I was unable to check anything beyond the whois servers already known by rxwhois.cmd, whois.iana.org, and whois-servers.net. Just for fun I've added the eleven IDN TLDs for the test beginning in September 2007:

1. Arabic xn--kgbechtv
2. Persian xn--hgbk6aj7f53bba
3. Chinese, simplified xn--0zwm56d
4. Chinese, traditional xn--g6w251d
5. Russian xn--80akhbyknj4f
6. Hindi xn--11b5bs3a9aj6g
7. Greek xn--jxalpdlp
8. Korean xn--9t4b11yi5a
9. Yiddish xn--deba0ad
10. Japanese xn--zckzah
11. Tamil xn--hlcj6aya9esc7a

Known issue: rxwhois.cmd expects UTF-8 as charset of whois servers, but whois.iana.org uses Latin-1 for at least one TLD ht (Haiti) entry. The IANA folks told me that they'll intend to use ASCII data for the eleven IDN test TLDs.