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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 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!theos.com!riscan.riscan.com!n1van.istar!van.istar!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!aurora.cs.athabascau.ca!sgigate.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsserver2.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!news.voicenet.com!news2.noc.netcom.net!noc.netcom.net!netcom.net.uk!netcom.com!petrich From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich) Subject: Why no M$ AppleScript or Rexx imitations? Message-ID: <petrichDs5Fv9.5Cr@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <4mlpnf$d4p@sidhe.memra.com> <4muhf9$giv@phobos.Candle.Com> <4npu4t$c7j@access1.digex.net> <4o0a60$9ff@kf8nh.apk.net> Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 04:16:20 GMT Lines: 25 Sender: petrich@netcom18.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.fan.bill-gates:22697 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:107954 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:142974 comp.os.os2.advocacy:205843 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:109747 comp.os.linux.advocacy:50429 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20268 In article <4o0a60$9ff@kf8nh.apk.net>, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <bsa@kf8nh.apk.net> wrote: >Also sprach rdd@access1.digex.net (R. D. Davis) (<4npu4t$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?). I agree that that is a most interesting deficiency of M$, consider M$'s willingness to copy so much else. The MacOS has AppleScript, which works *very* nicely (if slowly for big jobs) with any program that can communicate with it; if a program is recordable, one can record a sequence of actions with Apple's Script Editor. Thus, if one is puzzled about exactly how to do certain things (the Finder dictionary is rather big), one can see what is the AppleScript counterpart of one's actions. And that's not to mention the scripting utilities available for OS/2, the Amiga, and Unix, not to mention such Big Iron OSes as VMS and VM/CMS. Why is M$ so behind??? -- Loren Petrich Happiness is a fast Macintosh petrich@netcom.com And a fast train My home page: http://www.webcom.com/petrich/home.html Mirrored at: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/pe/petrich/home.html