[Lvlug] Session 1 Presentation

[Daniel S. Washko]

> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 02:52:17PM -0400, Daniel S. Washko wrote:
>> How about automation?  I've been trying to find a way to do simple
>> automation  on Windows and novell like I can with Unix.  It just is
>> not there.
> 
> Good idea!  What kinds of things are you trying to automate?
> 
> And why can't you write a VB app or use their scripting language to
> automate things (I know I'm goingto be asked this myself, so...)
> 

Perhaps I could, but I keep running into walls when using windows scripting
hosts.  Simple things, like hasing out a password and stuff.  There is a
whole level of simple things I wanted to do that would require using the
full blown visual basic. 

This is strictly bias, I believe, but scripting with windows requires a
whole different level of understanding.  Working with vb, and object
oriented language; in my opinion; is not as simple, nor elegant, as using
bash.  Piping output to other commands is not as apparent either.

So, to do a lot of the scripting I wanted to do required paying for a full
copy of VB.  



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