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From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARexx question
Summary: AmigaTeX is (almost) batch and works well with ARexx
Message-ID: <903@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 88 16:48:27 GMT
References: <8759@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <4XFfRWy00VsfQ0UVJX@andrew.cmu.edu> <2744@sugar.uu.net>
Reply-To: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Organization: Dept of Math, Ohio St U at Newark, Newark OH 43055
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In article <2744@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Actually, it would be pretty hairy. You would have to set up an interactive
>interface to what is essentially a batch program. I'd rather have a filter
>that grokked the output of make and cc and sent the commands to the editor.
>Kick it off from wsh. How about Arexx itself? You can pipe to it in wsh.
>
>Why, look, you don't need that port after all!

AmigaTeX, like all faithful TeX implementations, is batch oriented.
(Yes it has loop mode but that is an add-on. I would like it on the
compiler too so that it doesn't take up space on VD0:)
Yet it works quite well with an ARexx port. At worst you will have to
take an exception on the ARexx port signal. 
Yes you do need another modification: the compiler must stop after every error
rather than after every five or only at the end. That very well could be
selectable at the invocation.
If you want to know how a compiler+ARexx+editor setup must work, take look
at AmigaTeX.

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