On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 16:34:26 -0600, Doug Quale wrote:

>The question you can help me answer >is: Why should I have to? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >(My answer, that the other tools available on MVS are far worse than >REXX isn't a very good answer, but it is difficult to escape.)

Your answer is wrong. The RIGHT answer is "You DON'T have to!" You can use any OS, prog language and/or tools that you want. You wanna use Perle? Great. Go use it. And go over to the Perle list in the process. Just quit clogging up THIS list with the argueing! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Darrow <dsdarrow@impulse.net> This message was posted on Impulse ----------------------------------------------------------------------- If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments