Hi Roger,

For repetitive computer operations I myself use an older program which I believe is called a “scripting” program. It is similar to Basic but lets you prepare the program in a text file. Then it executes it one step at a time.

As you would expect it runs very slow. But it can open and close windows and instruct other programs to run. So it is quite useful as a control program for doing the same thing over and over.

I tried using the Windows Scripting language to do that but found it too complex. Just getting it to do simple things such as opening a text file was a nightmare. I am planning to see if the Perl language would be a good one for that. It has the advantages that it can also be used as a CGI program at a Web site – I believe that the EarthWaves board CGI program is written in Perl. And it is free. So everyone can use it to develop and share programs. The reason I do not have it running at the moment is the fact that you need to have a C language compiler on your computer. And I haven’t gone looking for one yet.