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From: bedney@monolith.lanl.gov (William J. Edney)
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Subject: Re: macroing? (was Re: NeXT in June issue of BYTE )
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Date: 4 Jun 91 20:28:54 GMT
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In article <1991May30.221109.4684@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>  
bill@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Shirley) writes:
> 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?
> 

Bill -
For those of us interested in shell programming without the pain (i.e. in a  
very NeXTlike way), watch for a product tenatively called ScriptWriter from a  
company here in Los Alamos called Firstsoft. I happen to know the author very  
well and it looks like it will be out late in the 3rd quarter.

--
- Bill Edney
- Los Alamos National Laboratory

"I don't speak for my employer and they don't speak for me. Kind of a nice  
arrangement."