bill@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Shirley) (05/31/91)
In the BYTE article on GUIs they mentioned NeXT's as well as
all X-Window/UN*X's lack of an easy macro fascility. What
exactly is he talking about (I am as unfamiliar with DOS as
I can get away with)?
What exactly can you do with this macro fascility?
Can this not be done with shell "programming" and or
crontab in UN*X?
I can't imagine anything that is routine that I could
not find a way to automate in UN*X, especially dealing
with data file processing.
So can DOS (and others) cook a pie for you or what?
-confused
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~~~~~~~~~~~DISCLAIMER~~~~~~~~~~~bedney@monolith.lanl.gov (William J. Edney) (06/05/91)
In article <1991May30.221109.4684@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> bill@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Shirley) writes: > In the BYTE article on GUIs they mentioned NeXT's as well as > all X-Window/UN*X's lack of an easy macro fascility. What > exactly is he talking about (I am as unfamiliar with DOS as > I can get away with)? > > What exactly can you do with this macro fascility? > > Can this not be done with shell "programming" and or > crontab in UN*X? > Bill - For those of us interested in shell programming without the pain (i.e. in a very NeXTlike way), watch for a product tenatively called ScriptWriter from a company here in Los Alamos called Firstsoft. I happen to know the author very well and it looks like it will be out late in the 3rd quarter. -- - Bill Edney - Los Alamos National Laboratory "I don't speak for my employer and they don't speak for me. Kind of a nice arrangement."