From: "Joe Barr" 


Script?


Riiiiiigggghht.


On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 22:17:05 +0000, Geo. wrote:

>  wrote in message
> news:20a031.7e8ca0{at}harborwebs.com...
>
>> Neither had powerful command shells, either, where you could string
>> together whole stacks of commands to get something done.
"ls" vs. "list"
>> may not be much difference when that's all you're typing, but when it's
>> something like:
>
> Right, how foolish of me to think that any OS except unix could be used to
> automate processes ;>
> It's not like I can set an NT server to backup a half dozen machines or
> auto-change wallpaper without powerful command shells and hours of
> scripting..
>
>>  Eterm -T MultiMail --trans off -F 10x20 -g 80x35 -f black -b white
>>  --scrollbar off --menubar off -P /usr/share/wallpapers/Marble01.jpg -e
>>  mm -transparency y -backfill n -editor "xterm -fn 12x24 -e pico -b -t
>>  -r75"
>
> I know an even more powerful scripting language, it's capable of doing
> absolutely anything the computer is capable of doing and you can write
> much longer scripts with it and talk about FAST. And best of all (you are
> really going to like this part) all the commands are real short, usually
> just 3 letters. They used to call it assembler but not many people use it
> anymore.
>
> Geo.

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