Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!dogie!uwmcsd1!lakesys!jason
From: jason@lakesys.UUCP (Jason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Batch processing from GEM desktop?
Summary: Nope...
Message-ID: <695@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 88 14:36:55 GMT
References: <3300004@hpcvmb.HP>
Organization: Lake Systems, Milwaukee Wisconsin
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In article <3300004@hpcvmb.HP>, jma@hpcvmb.HP (John Altendorf) writes:
> Is there any way to use the equivalent of a batch file from the GEM 
> desktop to allow the sequential execution of multiple programs simply
> by double clicking on a file icon?
> 
> John Altendorf                   	...!hplabs!hp-pcd!jma


	The standard GEM desktop (I don't think that the desktop alternative
I saw advertised does either) will NOT do batch files. The reason is simple:
The desktop interprets clicks & such, not text. One possible way of doing what
you're talking about is to install a specific extender(s) (".SH", or ".BAT", I
dunno) into a shell.

	Jason
"Not your average iconoclast"