On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:44:04 GMT, Owen Duffy wrote:
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:52:40 GMT, "Frank's"
wrote:
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Hope you managed to follow my rambling description. To say the
least it requires a lot of tedious data manipulation with Excel.
If you are interested I can e-mail my spread sheets, NEC input
and output files, etc.

You might want to consider a scripting environment to build, run, and
summarise NEC runs.

Windows lacks a good scripting language for this type of application.
Fortunately there are others available, and at no charge. Two that I
have used are PERL and Python.

And, there's REXX (several -- recommend Regina for one) which has
_great_ string handling capabilities.

Jonesy
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On 20 Aug 2006 00:52:41 GMT, Allodoxaphobia
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And, there's REXX (several -- recommend Regina for one) which has
_great_ string handling capabilities.

I haven't followed the fortunes of REXX since I taught some "Safe
REXX" courses in the ealy '90s.

I do recall that in the 80s, IBM wanted to hand it over to the ANSI to
be made a standard. That should have nobbled its progress sufficiently
to be overtaken by developments originating from the Unix world.

But yes, I see that enthusiasts have kept it alive. Does it have
(PC)REs, might be an option for people who don't want to embrace REs.

Owen
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