Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!ccncsu!mozart!klingspo From: klingspo@mozart.cs.colostate.edu (Steve Klingsporn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Latest ZTERM Version? Message-ID: <14713@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Date: 5 May 91 19:30:45 GMT References: <1991May5.022920.7883@cbnewsj.att.com> <00948244.C3E61580@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> Sender: news@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU Organization: Colorado State University Lines: 27 In article <00948244.C3E61580@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) writes: >In article <1991May5.022920.7883@cbnewsj.att.com>, ralph@cbnewsj.att.com (Ralph Brandi) writes: >>I am also a registered owner of ZTerm. I gave up and bought >>Microphone II 3.0 last year when they had a special trade-up offer. >>It runs slowly on my Plus, but the scripting is *very* nice. Easy >>to use *and* powerful. > > OK. Dumb question time. What, exactly, is scripting? Apparently >it's *not* keyboard macros (my first guess), which Zterm appears to have. >That doesn't tell me what it *is*, though... > > John Price * * * * price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu > Where there is no solution, there is no problem. Not a dumb question. Scripting is a simplified programming environment, either interpreted or compiled or compiled and lost (like HyperCard 2.0) that has commands like 'wait until "Moof"' and the like, to control how the program (in this case, a comm program) execures. Hence, you can have a script that logs into your account, etc. BTW, I have yet to see a good scripting language on the mac sans HyperTalk. It would be nice to see a com. program that contains a language similar and unrestricted like (to) HyperCard's HyperTalk. If you're not familiar with scripting, check out HyperCard. Steve Klingsporn