Install BSF4ooRexx on Windows

BSF4ooRexx

Install BSF4ooRexx

  1. Visit (https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsf4oorexx/files/)
  2. Choose folder GA (general available version)
  3. Choose newest version of BSF4ooRexx (as of July 2016: BSF4ooRexx-450.20140914-GA)
  4. Download the Windows version of BSF4ooRexx (as of July 2016: BSF4ooRexx_install_v450-20141014-refreshed-20141212.zip)
  5. Unzip the downloaded archive
  6. Navigate into the unzipped subdirectory "bsf4oorexx/install/windows"
  7. Execute (double click) install.cmd

Now, ooRexx and BSF4ooRexx are installed.

Executing scripts

  1. Open a command prompt. (how?)
  2. Navigate to the scripts location (the steps below navigate to the preinstalled samples).
    1. Enter "cd C:\Program Files\BSF4ooRexx\samples" in the command prompt and confirm by pressing enter
      • If an error is displayed, enter "cd C:\Program Files (x86)\BSF4ooRexx\samples" in the command prompt and confirm by pressing enter
    2. Enter "dir" in the command prompt and confirm by pressing enter to see the content of this folder
  3. Run the script.
    1. Enter "rexxj <filename>.<extension>" (e.g. "rexxj HelloWorld.rxj") and confirm by pressing enter

Great! You have everything installed and ran your first script!