2009/8/29 Allin Cottrell
<cottrell@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.