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From: bsa@kf8nh.apk.net (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,alt.org.team-os2,alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is Microsoft's Internet plan more about its love of power than about users?
Date: 22 May 1996 20:06:24 -0400
Organization: Brandon's home server in Parma, Ohio
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References: <4mlpnf$d4p@sidhe.memra.com> <4mrg49$pok@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <4muhf9$giv@phobos.Candle.Com> <4npu4t$c7j@access1.digex.net>
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Also sprach rdd@access1.digex.net (R. D. Davis) (<4npu4t$c7j@access1.digex.net>):
+-----
| >or better yet, get an OS with a REAL batch language built in (BTW - when
| >IS Microsoft going to ship an OS with a real batch language built in?). 
| >These people probably spent a couple of hours figuring out how to do
| >this stuff.  Most of these things can be done in 5 minutes with REXX.
| 
| ...and probably in less time on a UNIX system with shell scripts.
+--->8

Perl scripts, yes.  Awk scripts, often.  Shell scripts?  Not!  The shell is
very flexible, but even awk has problems duplicating e.g. PARSE PULL.

On the flip side, REXX is also available for Unix.
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++brandon s. allbery	from home in parma, oh		bsa@kf8nh.apk.net
(work address)						bsa@telotech.com