Re: word of the day

[Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com>]

Fascinating.  I've used the windows scripting host on and off in the  
past with a Perl plugin, and coming from a Unix background I've always  
been a big fan of cygwin, but I wasn't even aware this existed.   
General-purpose Windows scripting doesn't really seem to be a huge  
priority for Microsoft, which is too bad.

Laura

On Dec 3, 2009, at 6:19 PM, Donald Hines wrote:

> In addition to DOS, Windows has PowerShell, an "extensible  
> automation engine" which includes a shell and a scripting language.  
> PowerShell requires the .NET framework, so overhead is a tad high :)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell
>
> /Donald
>
> > From: lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com
> > To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> > Subject: Re: word of the day
> > Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:11:04 -0800
> >
> >
> > On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> >
> > > "Interactive shell"? A shell is by definition interactive, no?
> >
> > No, shell scripts are not interactive. Unless they have a menu
> > system. :)
> >
> > "Interactive shell" is a Unix term, BTW, and refers specifically  
> to an
> > actual shell (bash, csh, tcsh, etc). The only shell in Windows is  
> DOS.
> >
> > Laura

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