jdb9608@ritcv.UUCP (J. David Beutel) (04/08/88)
In article <8804051549.AA04623@lasso.laas.fr> ralph@lasso.UUCP (Ralph P. Sobek) writes: > GEMBOOT provides the possibilty to execute >a batch file as the last step of the \AUTO\ folder sequence. By default it >looks for *.BAT files in \BOOTBAT\. Batch files are executed by default by >COMMAND.PRG. One can select amongst the batch files. I've never heard of batch files for GEM before. Would someone please fill me in? Are *.BAT only in France?
john@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (John Stanley) (04/13/88)
In article <353@ritcv.UUCP> jdb9608@ritcv.UUCP (J. David Beutel) writes: >> GEMBOOT provides the possibilty to execute >>a batch file as the last step of the \AUTO\ folder sequence. By default it >>looks for *.BAT files in \BOOTBAT\. Batch files are executed by default by >>COMMAND.PRG. One can select amongst the batch files. > > I've never heard of batch files for GEM before. Would someone >please fill me in? Are *.BAT only in France? Batch (.BAT) files are text files containing a series of commands. These files are offen used to repeat a series of often-used functions rather than having to type in the commands time after time by hand. Most CLI (command line interface) programs have some form of batch capability. Many allow the person setting up the file to use special codes in the file that replace key filenames to make the batch file more flexable. An example would be a series of commands to compile and link a program. One of the changeable code fields in the file would be the name of the file to compile. One batch file could then be used to compile and link any number of programs and save the user a -lot- of typing. No, batch files are definately not limited to France. I think I'd go nuts if I had to go without batch capabiltiy and I live in Minnesota... To make it a bit clearer.. the batch files are not "batch files for GEM", they're batch files that will work with CLI programs on the ST. COMMAND.PRG is the "standard", but I don't know of anyone who uses it localy, there are far too many better CLI programs available for little cost or public-domain... --- John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP) Software Consultant - DynaSoft Systems UUCP: ...{amdahl,ihnp4,rutgers}!meccts!viper!john