Am 22.09.24 schrieb kirkspragg@21:2/150 in FSX_RETRO:

Hallo kirkspragg,

Hey there! I've been playing arund with win 3.1 a bit lately & wonder if
any of the wise people here know of something like Autoit our Auto Hot Key thats works in Win 3.1?

I don't know how much of real 'scripting' is possible with it, but
AFAIR Norton Utilities for Windows and in PC Tools for Windows both
featured a macro language.
Maybe have a look there?

Regards,
Anna

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acn wrote to kirkspragg <=-

I don't know how much of real 'scripting' is possible with it, but
AFAIR Norton Utilities for Windows and in PC Tools for Windows both featured a macro language.
Maybe have a look there?

There was a whole community based around 4DOS - it has some very
interesting batch extensions and extensions overall for DOS.

I think there's still a 4DOS echo on Fidonet, although it hasn't seen
traffic in a while (if it's still there)



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On 4/10/24 18:03, poindexter FORTRAN wrote:

acn wrote to kirkspragg <=-

ac> I don't know how much of real 'scripting' is possible with it, but
ac> AFAIR Norton Utilities for Windows and in PC Tools for Windows both
ac> featured a macro language.
ac> Maybe have a look there?

There was a whole community based around 4DOS - it has some very
interesting batch extensions and extensions overall for DOS.

Indeed - back in the 90's my BBS was driven by 4DOS batch files. Was
much nicer to work with than regular old DOS batch files :-)

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Am 04.10.24 schrieb poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 in FSX_RETRO:

Hallo poindexter,

I don't know how much of real 'scripting' is possible with it, but
AFAIR Norton Utilities for Windows and in PC Tools for Windows both
featured a macro language.
Maybe have a look there?

There was a whole community based around 4DOS - it has some very interesting batch extensions and extensions overall for DOS.

I think there's still a 4DOS echo on Fidonet, although it hasn't seen traffic in a while (if it's still there)

Yes, that's true. But 4DOS does not feature scripting of Windows 3.x applications - which was the OPs question. :)
(I've also used 4DOS back in the day and loved it, but I did not use
all features or did excessive scripting)

Regards,
Anna

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I ran 4DOS here for many years...

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Hello Bf2K+,

08 Oct 24 20:28, you wrote to poindexter FORTRAN:

I ran 4DOS here for many years...

$ telnet bbs

OS/2 Version 2.4 (bbs)
login:danielp
password:................

4OS2 3.09 OS/2 Version is 4.50
Copyright (c) 1988-2002 JP Software, Inc -- http://jpsoft.com/
Netlabs Edition http://4os2.netlabs.org/ -- not supported by JP Software, Inc.


[<bbs>-c:\]


:)

Regards,
--
dp

telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-

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I don't know how much of real 'scripting' is possible with it, but
AFAIR Norton Utilities for Windows and in PC Tools for Windows both featured a macro language.
Maybe have a look there?

I'll take a look, I managed to get something workable going with winbatch 5. Aside from some odd Y2k issues with the date & timing functions it did work well enough - having to raise a dialog with a time delay to force my script to wait was a bit annoying but it did work.

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