[openbeos] Re: Scripting

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>
>Hello,
>
>For the communication between print_server and the preference app / 
>BPrintJob API I have been using standard scripting. This is really 
nice to 
>do (if raw speed isn't an issue), as you can also "see" the protocol 
>documentation by (in my case) typing "hey print_server GETSUITES", 
this 
>dumps all supported scripting vocabulary in the Terminal as output. 
This 
>helps keeping docs up-to-date, and is easy for people needing specific 
>functionality in shell scripts (i.e. selecting a specific printer as 
>default, for example).
>
>On another note, wouldn't it be a good idea to keep tools like hey & 
>stubgen in our CVS tree? I'm pretty sure some mods will be made to 
them for 
>OpenBeOS specific functionality.
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Ithamar R. Adema
>Information Engineering Associates Ltd
>http://www.ieadev.com
>
>
>

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