Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!jgary
From: jgary@ms.uky.edu (James E. Gary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Does Anyone Use AREXX For Control Of Multiple Applications?
Message-ID: <13003@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 21 Oct 89 03:29:15 GMT
References: <23183@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: jgary@ms.uky.edu (James E. Gary)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <23183@cup.portal.com> Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes) writes:
>I'd like to hear about applications that people have for AREXX that involve
>multiple applications being controlled concurrently.  Most of the AREXX users

I too feel that AREXX is being underutilized in this area. I wrote a set
of simple macros that integrate Atalk3 and Microfiche filer plus to keep
track of and download files from BIX. There are somewhere around 800 files
on BIX and although you can search by date and keyword on-line, bix is
pretty slow. My programs allow you to take a full listing of the files
with dates, authors, keywords, descriptions, size, etc. (all this is 
available in one zoo from BIX -- updated every Sunday), and put this
info into a database with MFF+. You can then use the database features
to select files you are interested in, then automatically have atalk
download those files for you. I whipped this up in a single afternoon
and have meant to go back and clean it up a little. I would also like to
add automatic updates ( a macro to call BIX and bring the database up to
date). If I do this, I will probably do it from NAG plus so it can be
scheduled to occur late at night. It would be interesting to integrate
three packages this way, don't you think?
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