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Re: Does Anyone Use AREXX For Control Of Multiple Applications?

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From: Mike (I'll think of something ye...
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1989 22:53
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I've got a couple of such applications. The one that's probably
closest to what you want runs from mff+, and uses mg to do template
processing on a user-selected file. This was written specifically so I
could do form letter generation, but can but used for many other,
similar things.

The rest are all based on treewalk. Treewalk can run one (or more)
macros on all files in a tree, and answers commands to hand back parts
of the FileInfoBlock (or expressions based on same) for the file
currently being considered. A typicall such macro is "mginsert", which
finds a running mg (starting one if needed), and inserts the name of
each file scaneed into the buffer. Other uses (such as getting vlt to
upload files that have changed since the last upload) should be
simple; I just need to write the scripts.

This last application also illustrates how most treewalk scripts work:
there's a WSHELL (or just a .rexx) script that sets some clip
variables, and then starts a treewalk (.ftw) script that uses those
clip variables to control what it does - for example, making vlt issue
"cd" commands to the remote host, so that it's in right directory to
do an upload.

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