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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] scripting sam 
In-Reply-To: Message from "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com> 
   of "Fri, 22 Dec 2000 01:37:22 EST." <20001222063724.059F3199DD@mail.cse.psu.edu> 
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 21:51:58 -0500
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<russ:
| there's always sam -d < script,

Sam, like ed, has no control structures for reacting to errors, so if
the slightest thing goes wrong, it's garbage out.  Really what one wants
is a noninteractive version of acme, so that you can write tcl scripts
to control /dev/editor.  (NIH: that's roughly how XEDIT and REXX worked
in the IBM mainframe universe.)