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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: User scripting in 7.x?
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.184515.13319@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 14 Mar 91 18:45:15 GMT
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bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:

>In article <27DF36E7.19478@orion.oac.uci.edu> bdugan@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bill Dugan) writes:
>>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 ...
>>
>>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?

>I suspect it'll be more along the lines of "when a file is put into
>this folder, do such-and-such" or "at precisely this time, execute
>>(2) Any idea on when it will arrive?  (Yeah, right, like Apple would tell us
>>that anyway.  :(    Oh well.)

>DIfferent reports have speculated that it'd be released either with
>`System 7.1' or `System 8.0'.  AppleScript has been shelved until
>everything else has settled down enough to devote some time to it, as
>has been the new print architecture and other tasks on the to-do list
>such as a rewrite of MacinTalk (no, the 2.0 floating around isn't
>real).

  And the Line/Layout Manager... this was something I was really
looking forward to in 7.0, a way to get ligatures and precise line
measurement/kerning etc, so that Mac output can finally look like TeX
output. 

  Any guesses as to when System 7.1, or System 8.0 will appear??  I
certainly hope it's before the end of 1992.


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