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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re:  IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future))
Message-ID: <47@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 91 09:24:02 GMT
References: <1991Jun8.044840.1404@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun8.074935.781@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun8.090052.12906@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun8.091822.13675@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <mykes.3358@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG>
Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Organization: Ryptyde Timesharing
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Responding to the following:

"As easy to program in as BASIC.  One of the first things I ever did with ARexx
was to integrate a few applications together.  I wrote an ARexx script that cause
d
my Term program (BaudBandit) to dial compuserve, login, navigate through the menu
s,
and ask for (and capture) stock quotes on Apple and CBM.  The ARexx program then
took the numbers from the term program and entered them into a spreadsheet in
Superplan (daily stock quote data base).  It then commanded Superplan to generate
an IFF file from a graph done by SP.  It also took some summary data from SP and
nicely formatted it into a document in my word processor (ProWrite).

This is something that I did almost 3 years ago, and might be possible on other
computers (namely the Mac) in the future..."

It is possible on the Mac now, and there is an application (Hypercard) to do
it quickly and easily. Also, mind spacing your posts a little better? Try 
spacing for an 80-column display...