On 9/3/05, Rick Nakroshis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To be more precise, no, there is no translator that analyzes what
> your batch file is doing to then generate a perl script. If you show
> us your batch file, we can give you some pointers and ideas if you like.
>
> Rick
I can't think of a standard DOS 5 utility that has functionality not
available from within Perl, so the tool would certainly be possible.
It would look something like this:
#!perl
use BatchInPerlLibraryModuleThatHasNotBeenWrittenYet;
while(<>){
my($command, $args) = /(\w+)\s+?(.*)/ or next;
$command = lc $command;
$command eq 'rem' and next;
isBATCH($command) and do{
BatchInPerlLibraryModuleThatHasNotBeenWrittenYet->$command($args);
next;
};
system($_); # fall back to looking the FS anyway
};
__END__
If you were to write this module you would be a hero to anyone who needs
to port batch files to non-MSDOS systems. You could write the parts of it
that are needed to support the scripts you need to port, then ask for a TPF
grant to write the rest of it.
Sort of like TChrist's project to rewrite all the unix command line
tools in Perl.
MSDOS is a unix, you know -- I have a MSDOS 2.0 manual, and it talks about
MSDOS as being a weak version of unix, when introducing the piping and
redirection
operators.
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