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#! rnews 2523 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) 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? Followup-To: 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 Date: 24 May 1996 12:20:06 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4o4616$gg@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4mlpnf$d4p@sidhe.memra.com> <4mrg49$pok@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <4muhf9$giv@phobos.Candle.Com> <4npu4t$c7j@access1.digex.net> <4o0a60$9ff@kf8nh.apk.net> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.fan.bill-gates:22665 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:107784 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:142555 comp.os.os2.advocacy:205582 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:109419 comp.os.linux.advocacy:50340 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20182 Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (bsa@kf8nh.apk.net) wrote: : Also sprach rdd@access1.digex.net (R. D. Davis) (<4npu4t$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. What's PARSE PULL ? Isn't that just a "read" ? : On the flip side, REXX is also available for Unix. IBM are getting respectable these days... or did someone else port it ? -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....