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  1. Article: 1603 of comp.graphics.packages.lightwave
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  4. From: bdupras@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Brian Dupras)
  5. Newsgroups: comp.graphics.packages.lightwave
  6. Subject: Re: LWPro, Elitism, Philosophy
  7. Date: 11 Jan 1995 04:19:20 GMT
  8. Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
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  15. J Eric Chard (Jeric@cup.portal.com) wrote:
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  17. >     IMNSHO, this doesn't cut it.  I can, with a little work, alter
  18. > AREXX macros if they >almost< do what I need, but my particular wants are
  19. > slightly different.
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  21. >     However, I sincerely doubt I'll ever have the knowledge and/or
  22. > gumption-to-acquire-the-knowledge to alter C based plugin routines.
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  24. I have to agree here.  I'm a programmer, but compiled C plug-ins are 
  25. nowhere near the type of thing I'd like to do every day to accomplish 
  26. some automated tasks.  Would it be possible to write an interpreter 
  27. plug-in for the existing AREXX macros given that they don't look for 
  28. amiga specific information (ie calls to the operating system)?  Say I had 
  29. a macro that simply displayed all the point locations of an object.  It's 
  30. a simple thing to do with AREXX and doesn't involve anything but LW 
  31. calls.  Would it be possible to run this text file through a LW specific 
  32. AREXX interpreter plug-in?
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  34. Brian
  35. bdupras@bert.eecs.uic.edu
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