windows , yeah, real good stuff...

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005, Brian K. White wrote:
>I think every time someone says how they don't have any problems with 
>windows and that the unix camp are just grumpy are simply used to more 
>grief and don't call many things a problem that should be called a problem.
>
>I just came across a comment in a batch file I wrote some time ago that I'd 
>completely forgotten. Life in windows seems to be a sea of a zillion things 
>like this, making it impossible to be properly outraged at every one.
...
>Probably my real problem is that I'm trying to write something in windows 
>but not using whatever passes for the "proper" scripting tool in windows 
>like vbs/wsh I guess. Maybe then I'd not have to do this either to emulate 
>a simple "sleep 1"

In the early '90s I developed an automatic backup system for DOS/Windows,
only because I found a working version of perl and a decent editor, elvis.
I couldn't use perl for everything because of memory limitations, so use it
to write .bat files on the fly, exec them, with the batch file invoking
another perl script to do the heavy lifting.

Bill
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