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From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Batch processing from GEM desktop?
Message-ID: <1071@atari.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 88 20:29:06 GMT
References: <493@philmds.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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in article <493@philmds.UUCP>, leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) says:
> 
> [...] Perhaps the BATCH.TTP should
> scan the batch file for positional parameters and supply an arguments line
> to be filled in by the user if it had any.
> 
> 	Leo. 
 
  Jefferson Software put out a program called RUN with version 1.0 of the
JS Modula system that did just that.  Its companion program "COMMAND" could
be used with it for a simple batch facility from the desktop.  RUN prompted
for a command line when it was run.  It also set up the environment, etc,
from parameters supplied in the file that launched it (a *.RUN file).
 
  I haven't heard of anyone using it extensively, but it seems to me that
program would be a very simple way to accomplish flag and environment 
setting to do things from the desktop.  When I was working on JS Modula
V1.0 libraries I used RUN extensively, it made development on a stock
520ST considerably less painful ;-).
 
  Ken Badertscher             | Opinions expressed above should be
  Atari Software Test/Support | expressly considered my own expressions.
  kbad@atari.UUCP