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RXQUEUE

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ACTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
COPYRIGHT
AUTHOR
MAINTAINER
SEE ALSO

NAME

rxqueue - The Regina Rexx Interpreter external queue filter

SYNOPSIS

rxqueue [ -h , --help ] [ -D , --debug ] [ -t string, --text string] [queue] [/fifo | /lifo | /clear | /pull | /queued]

DESCRIPTION

rxqueue is a utility that provides access to the Regian Rexx external queue daemon (rxstack). It acts as a filter by placing lines onto a queue via stdin or a single line with the -t or --text switches. Lines can be pulled off the queue to stdout

OPTIONS

-h , --help

Displays short help.

-D , --debug

Turns debugging on -t string, --text string Places the single line specified in string onto an optional queue in the order specified by /fifo or /lifo

queue

The name of the queue to use. Format is queuename[@machine][:port]. If not specified the queue name used is SESSION on localhost using the default port.

ACTIONS

/fifo

Stacks the contents of stdin onto the queue in first in, first out order.

/lifo

Stacks the contents of stdin onto the queue in last in, first out order.

/clear

Removes all lines currently stacked in the queue.

/pull

Extracts the next line from the queue to stdout and removes it from the queue.

/queued

Returns the number of lines stacked on the queue to stdout

ENVIRONMENT

rxqueue uses the following environment variables if set.
RXDEBUG

Enables debugging. Same as specifying -D or --debug option.

RXSTACK

The port number on which rxstack listens. By default this is 5757 .

RXQUEUE

The name of the queue to be used if not specified by the client using rxqueue. By default this is SESSION .

COPYRIGHT

The Regina Rexx interpreter is distributed under the GNU Library General Public License, see the file ‘COPYING-LIB’ in the source code distribution.

AUTHOR

Anders Christensen, University of Trondheim, Norway <anders (at) pvv.unit.no>.

MAINTAINER

Changes to Regina since 0.07a, Mark Hessling <mark (at) rexx.org> with significant assistance from Florian Grosse-Coosmann.

SEE ALSO

rxstack (1)

There are several good reference books on Rexx. The most famous is "The Rexx Language" by Mike Cowlishaw. Visit http://www.rexxla.org (The Rexx Language Association) for any Rexx related information.