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From: fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Graphical way to write Unix shell scripts
Message-ID: <1991Jun06.123359.13895@socrates.umd.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 12:33:59 GMT
References: <1991Jun3.035743.28221@math.ucla.edu> <25043@lanl.gov> <1991Jun5.230955.10780@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1991Jun5.230955.10780@agate.berkeley.edu> spenton@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (Steve Penton) writes:
>In article <25043@lanl.gov> bedney@monolith.lanl.gov (William J. Edney) writes:
>>In article <1991Jun3.035743.28221@math.ucla.edu> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu  
>>(Barry Merriman) writes:
>>
>>> A related beef: is it/will it ever be possibe to use the GUI/IB
>>> to make graphical shell scripts? A graphical front end to a shell 
>>> script would be the easiest way to make a UNIXCommand App.
>>> 
>>> --
>
>>Barry -
>>As I said in an another message to Bill Shipley, look for an app called  
>>ScriptWriter coming from a company called Firstsoft here in Los Alamos. It  
>>should be here in late August and be priced very competitively.
>>--
>>- 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."
>
>Then again there's SystemWorks availiable free from: srawgw.sra.co.jp !
>
>Don't believe the docs, It does compile for 68040's
>
 
Another vote for SystemWorks-version 1.1 is now available on sonata.cc.purdue.
edu. You *must* recompile if using on an 040. There are some minor bugs
which the author is currently fixing. The biggest drawback at this time,
and the author is aware of this and working on it, is the handling of
multiple files. SW now handles "dragging to icons."

Check it out!

Charlie