From news Sun Jun 4 20:28:54 91 
From: bedney@monolith.lanl.gov (William J. Edney)
Subject: Re: macroing? (was Re: NeXT in June issue of BYTE )

In article <1991May30.221109.4684@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>  
bill@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Shirley) writes:
> In the BYTE article on GUIs they mentioned NeXT's as well as
> all X-Window/UN*X's lack of an easy macro fascility.  What
> exactly is he talking about (I am as unfamiliar with DOS as
> I can get away with)?
> 
> What exactly can you do with this macro fascility?
> 
> Can this not be done with shell "programming" and or 
> crontab in UN*X?
> 

Bill -
For those of us interested in shell programming without the pain (i.e. in a  
very NeXTlike way), watch for a product tenatively called ScriptWriter from a  
company here in Los Alamos called Firstsoft. I happen to know the author very  
well and it looks like it will be out late in the 3rd quarter.

From news Sun Jun 5 01:28:54 91 
From: William.J..Edney@f98.n250.z1.FidoNet.Org (William J. Edney)
Subject: Re: macroing? (was Re: NeXT in June issue of BYTE )


In article <1991May30.221109.4684@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>  
bill@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Shirley) writes:
> In the BYTE article on GUIs they mentioned NeXT's as well as
> all X-Window/UN*X's lack of an easy macro fascility.  What
> exactly is he talking about (I am as unfamiliar with DOS as
> I can get away with)?
> 
> What exactly can you do with this macro fascility?
> 
> Can this not be done with shell "programming" and or 
> crontab in UN*X?
> 

Bill -
For those of us interested in shell programming without the pain (i.e. in a  
very NeXTlike way), watch for a product tenatively called ScriptWriter from a 

company here in Los Alamos called Firstsoft. I happen to know the author very 

well and it looks like it will be out late in the 3rd quarter.