Re: general questions

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:57 PM, John Maher <JohnM_at_rotair.com> wrote:
>>
> A script is just a subset of a full fledged program. In other words, a
> program can do all a script can do and more.

That's the part you don't seem to be getting. A script is a wrapper
around all of your programs and becomes a superset of all of them. At
least the ones that are capable of using and generating text. It is
not just limited to what any single program can do - or what is on any
single machine for that matter assuming you have a tool like ssh
available. At least that's the unix-inspired way of thinking.
Maybe you are used to some more restricted form of scripting.

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   Les Mikesell
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