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From: greg@bilbo (Greg Wageman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Batch processing from GEM desktop?
Message-ID: <268@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM>
Date: 23 May 88 22:01:20 GMT
References: <3300004@hpcvmb.HP>
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Reply-To: greg%sentry@spar.slb.com (Greg Wageman)
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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?

Sure.  Write yourself a command interpreter.  Call it "batch.ttp".
Install this as a "TTP" type application, with file type of "bat".
Create your script of batch commands for this processor to read using
any text editor; call the result "file.bat".  Double-clicking on
"file.bat" will launch "batch.ttp" with "file.bat" as a command-line
argument.  Your batch program then parses its input file, pexec'ing
the programs named therein.  When each command completes in turn, it
reads the next line and repeats, until end of file, at which time it
exits.

"batch.ttp" shouldn't take more than a couple of hours to write and
debug.


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