[Gretl-users] any use for gretlcli.exe?

[Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza]

2009/8/29 Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu.edu>

>
> One question occurs to me, as I push out the 1.8.4 release:
> I wonder if anyone ever uses gretlcli.exe on Windows?  I've
> included it for completeness but maybe it's not earning its keep?
>
> Don't worry, I won't get rid of gretlcli.exe without discussion.
>
> But my feeling is that gretlcli on Linux is useful (to some of us
> anyway) because Linux comes supplied with a highly functional
> shell, wrapped in highly functional GUI terminal emulators such as
> xterm and its derivatives.  On the other hand the default shell on
> Windows (cmd.exe) is primitive and horrible, as is the default
> terminal emulator that it runs in.
>
> You'd have to be a masochist to run gretlcli.exe under cmd.exe --
> or would you?  There's my question!
>

I have used gretlcli.exe several times. For example, if you need to update
some forecasts perodically, each time a new data is available, using the
same model. You can prepare a script to be run from the command line, or
even from and icon in the desktop (that calls gretlcli.exe from the command
shell), and only adding a new row of obs. to the data file and clicking on
this icon you will have the new file of results.



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