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From: bill@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Shirley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: macroing? (was Re: NeXT in June issue of BYTE )
Message-ID: <1991May30.221109.4684@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
Date: 30 May 91 22:11:09 GMT
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Sender: shirley@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Shirley)
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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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