Y'know, I've always thought that a PC program that emulated the CI would
be absolutely stellar.

Picture it, although most of the environment variables would be static
or random, you could sit at your laptop/desktop and code a CI script
using the PC text editor of your choice.  Run the script against the CI
emulator until it doesn't complain about syntax -- and the ECHOed output
looks reasonable -- then take it to the real machine for the last 5-10%
of tweaking.

You would need to wait until getting to your regular system to use RUN
or (perhaps) XEQ calls, but hey -- you could get so much "surrounding"
code taken care of!  You wouldn't need to be tied to your system to
initially code some job/script that would eventually run on it.

The fun part is that this really wouldn't be that hard to write -- you
could even write it in Perl or Python pretty easily -- but I'm sure you
would have to get HP's blessing on it, since it would look and feel like
our beloved (and copyrighted) HP e3000 CI.

Did anyone ever do this, or try to do this?


Thanks,
Curtis





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