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From: bdugan@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bill Dugan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: User scripting in 7.x?
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Date: 14 Mar 91 08:40:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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According to the first press releases for System 7.0, Apple would release
something called "user scripting" which to me sounded like the closest thing
to a CLI available for the Macintosh, although something more akin to
Macromaker seems more likely.  Then I believe the "user scripting" was
delayed for the System version that will follow System 7.0.

Questions:  (1) What details do we have on the user scripting?  Will we
be able to, say, specify a bunch of files (using wildcards, of course) as
inputs to a certain program, and then rout the output of that program to
a second program, and rout the output of both programs to a third?  Or
is it going to be more like another keyboard macro program?
(2) Any idea on when it will arrive?  (Yeah, right, like Apple would tell us
that anyway.  :(    Oh well.)

bill