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From: pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FULLY INTERACTIVE SCRIPTS (A Tutorial)
Summary: Thanks!
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Date: 13 May 88 08:47:55 GMT
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[Marco Papa writes (in <8922@oberon.USC.EDU>) about his program "getline"
to be used with XICON...]

Yeah!!  Many thanks, Marco!  I've been meaning to to write a "stupid little
program" like that since I first wrote xicon, but somehow I never got to
it.  As usual, the first person who REALLY needs it is the one who has
to write it...

Anyhow, it nicely fills the "Interaction Void" in that area.
BTW, for my own scripts at least, I find that the sort of place where pipes
can be very useful (rather than writing the input line to RAM:).  Of course
you DO have to have pipes installed first!  Which makes the idea not so
good for the installation scripts you were talking about.  (But when 1.3 is
released, EVERYONE will use pipes, won't they? (:-))

Marco also mentions the "various versions" of Xicon.  I think I can finally
clarify that a bit, after I wrote to Gail Wellington at C-A about it, and
got a friendly letter back.  Apparently both I and someone at C-A (unnamed)
had the same idea, and picked the same (perhaps obvious) name for it, quite
independently, so the program that is to be released on 1.3 is NOT mine.
(I'm not sure why they never released it before, though...)  To avoid
confusion, C-A has graciously decided to change the name of theirs to
"IconX".  As mine is more comprehensive, you may find it more use in the
sort of turnkey applications it was designed for.  It IS bigger though!

                                            -- Pete --