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Gary Labowitz wrote:

> Ah, Universities! Seat of knowledge! Seat of learning! Seat of being
> out-of-date in computer technology!
> ("... Be not the last to lay the old aside.")
>
> "Phil Robyn" <probyn@zipuclink.berkeley.edu> wrote in message
> news:3B4383D3.49C13CED@zipuclink.berkeley.edu...
> > "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" wrote:
> >
> <<snip>>
> > I'm still using Wylbur (the PC version) on WinNT!!!!
>  <<<snip>>>
> >
>

Don't knock it if you haven't tried it....  Wylbur is still head and
shoulders above all other batch command interpreters.  Even
Windows Scripting Host still cannot put up a screen with multiple
fields for user input ....

--
Phil Robyn
Univ. of California, Berkeley

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