windows , yeah, real good stuff...

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:23:49PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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.

Oh, *ghod*...

I did this on... an old NorthStar system?... back in the early 80s.  I
had a 'batch' file that called a basic program that wrote a second
batch file, then exited, and the first one then called the second one.

Did that on some kind of IBM, at one point, too.

Cheers,
-- jra
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