Anyone that has to pick up electronic mail off international systems regularly and frequently, and all those with programs that require a stupidly complex set of commands just to load them will know what a boon MS-DOS batch files are, and Apple Computer Inc Macintosh users are to get similar benefits courtesy of UserLand Software Inc, Palo Alto, California: according to Microbytes Daily, the company has come out with Frontier, a scripting environment for the Mac designed to enable users or developers create menu items for the Mac desktop and link them to scripts that automate routine or complex tasks; and through its support of Inter-Application Communications – both Mac System 7.0 AppleEvents and its own UserLand IAC Toolkit, Frontier scripts will be able to reach inside compliant Mac applications and automate them as well; a run-time version of Frontier is expected to cost less than $200.
