[Lvlug] Session 1 Presentation

[Brian Martin]

There's a great deal that can be done without VB.  There are several
tomes about NT* command line programming, and we use a great deal of it
here.  We also use Autotester, and WSH, but I don't like those. 
Curiously, I *know* VB is more complicated and finicky than shell and
perl, yet I can do it.  Strangely, my VB people are very resistant to
doing *nix.  They are too busy keeping up with changes in VB from year
to year, and I'm still running sh from 1988.  There's a nutshell book on
windows command line tricks, maybe two of them.  They should let you do
darn near whatever you want.

"Daniel S. Washko" wrote:
> 
> > 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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