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In article <3300006@hpcvmb.HP> jma@hpcvmb.HP (John Altendorf) writes:
>I know how to get the task done from a shell (MWC msh).  My question is
>can it be done from the GEM desktop?  (I want to make it available to
>those users in my house that only know how to work from the desktop!)
>
>John Altendorf

Some reactions on John's question involved creating a batch file processing
program, something like BATCH.TTP and using the Install Application from
the Desktop to mark .BAT files as to be read and interpreted by BATCH.TTP.
I think a good batch file processor should also provide for parameter
substitution (like the $1, $2, $* etc. parameters of the shell, or %1 from
MS-DOS). It would have been nice if the Desktop supplied the arguments line
itself for the parameters (seeing that a .TTP program was involved), but
this is not the case (I think because you already have the batch file name
as a first argument for the batch program). Perhaps the BATCH.TTP should
scan the batch file for positional parameters and supply an arguments line
to be filled in by the user if it had any.

	Leo.