From: "jlwpc1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 1:05 PM
>
>> Is awk installed?
>>
>
>>Somehow managed
>>to get the wrong awk.exe wrapping the wrong
>>gawk.exe.
>
>Try Windows Script Host ( WSH ),
>(always there, always ready), since
>Apache now fully supports Windows
>OS (and IE) tools! :)
Since exactly one person (I) responded to your suggestion to check their
machine (to see how widely installed cscript is) I presume there is zero
interest in your suggestion (1-1=0, for reasonably typical values of 1).
http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/fileversion/dllinfo.asp?sd=MSDN
FileName "cscript.exe" tells me
cscript.exe 5.1.0.4615 More Information Microsoft (r) Console Based Script Host
No distribution information provided, presuming a component of the WSH download
cscript.exe 5.1.0.4411 More Information Microsoft (r) Console Based Script Host
Distributed with Windows 2000 BETA RC2 9/9/1999
cscript.exe 5.0.531.7 More Information Console Based Scripting Host
No distribution information provided, presuming a component of the WSH download
And Apache runs under Win32, but should be buildable with any toolset, provided
<someone> introduces the flexiblity to build under BCC/Watcom/GNU etc. CScript
(plus every component we then trust to be available and properly versioned, a rarity
from the MS com development team) puts us in the other direction, with the exception
of authoring some additional parts (the MSI installer, for example) where there is no
alternative.
I guess that ends that discussion. Try awk, 135kb, runs anywhere. Plus, it's the only
part of the Win32 msi package that always works for everyone.
