... We describe a simple method to annotate shell scripts and have a preprocessor extract a set of variables, present them to the user in a GUI (using Tcl/Tk) with context sensitive help, and run the script. ... When individual applications are (tightly) integrated into the scripting language, this offers very powerful scripts, fully graphical user interfaces and a result sometimes indistinguishable from applications. ... Here is an example header from a C-shell script with which Figure 1 was made. ...