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Subject: Re: Scripts for Mac/Lisa
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Date: Fri, 24-Aug-84 19:18:46 EDT
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From: linus!watmath!ljdickey (Lee Dickey)
Peter Rowley (Peterr%toronto.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa) says:

> There are at least two general areas where one needs "scripts":
> - automation of a task that is performed identically each time, but takes
>   quite a while to complete
> - description of a class of tasks, parameterized in some way

I would like to second his ideas by saying that there is another 
area that I consider to be important.  (Maybe it is really part of 
one or another of the above two classes, but it may give a different 
idea about some of the jobs to be done:

   - things you want done at a time that you are not physically present.

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