Just a remark about Marks' last bit: I have to admit that the proprietary 
macro language that we don't want to name here at least had the merit of 
being rather easy to learn and providing almost all the access you 
needed to the functionalities of the large software package that we 
don't want to mention here, whereas getting into GRASS means using all 
those tools like awk, sed, shell-scripting - in fact the standard UNIX 
tools that make it such a hurdle to take for people who are interested 
in just using the stuff (not mentioning the effort of learning C). And 
isn't GRASS in itself a shell that provides access to basic UNIX 
funcionalities? Speaking for myself, I always have been much more at ease 
with macro (or 4GL) languages - but then again, sometimes I work on a PC, 
and I just love working under Windows...

Philip Verhagen
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