CompuServe Messages

[cont..] I have a number of scripts I use for specific databases. They allow me to look up phone numbers, CIS node abbreviations, airport IDs, words from contents files on Fish disks, and probably a few more. I also use some of these from BackTalk, to provide information and entertainment whil in CO here on AmigaTech. When someone types the appropriate keyword and an argument, my script gives them the answer, right there in CO. I have other scripts that use my ROBBS programs for specific, automated telecom functions, including automatic gathering of data like weather maps and aviation weather reports from my area, as well as some that use BackTalk for the same types of things. I wrote a fairly minimal flight planning program in ARexx, and that is being used as a prototype for one I am writing in C, complete with 2.0 gadtool features. Several of my scripts are filters, designed to be used with pipes (real pipes, like Bill Hawes' PIP: device). One is like the Unix 'uniq', but vastly improved in that the redundant lines do not have to be sequential. Another is a variation, called 'dup', that will output only redundant lines. I have a 'tee' command that opens its own window to show the intermediate stages of a series of pipes. Many of my earlier scripts were to 'fix' what I saw as command deficiencies. One was for the join command, which I consider buggy, in that a file specified for both input and output will be clobbered. My script checked for it, and created a temp file, going ahead with the join. Others were to provide the '*' wildcard for commands that did not have that capability, since I was using many of the ARP commands. Before I started using the ARP sort, I wrote a front end that alloowed it to be used to sort a single file with a command 'sort filename', which again made a temp file and replaced the original at the end. [cont…]