An Interactive Command Generating Facility A facility to permit conversationally controlled tasks to be executed in a noninteractive environment is proposed. A means by which programs can generate interactive time-sharing commands and receive the corresponding output response is presented. The commands will be invoked as if they had been typed at a console keyboard. It is argued that this facility will help overcome some of the current limitations in man-computer communication. A set of functions to accomplish the above which could be embedded into any string processing language is suggested, and necessary information pertinent to implementation of the facility on existing time-sharing systems is given. CACM July, 1970 Grant, C. A. time-sharing, command languages, pseudo-teletype, interaction, conditional job control, operating systems 3.80 3.81 4.29 4.39 CA700701 JB February 13, 1978 9:43 AM 1530 4 2036 1531 4 2036 1565 4 2036 1703 4 2036 1945 4 2036 2036 4 2036 1455 5 2036 2036 5 2036 2036 5 2036 2036 5 2036