Have you considered using Cygwin on Windows 2000? That would allow you to use a full bash shell and almost any BSD Unix or GNU tool natively.
http://www.cygwin.com On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 12:26, Dustin Cross wrote: > I know about several options for windows, but this script has to run on any > plain old win2k workstation without the NON-TECH users having to do > anything but "double-click" the icon on the desktop and send me the output > file. It would be nice if I could get it to mail me the file, but I am not > that advanced yet. > > Basically the script checks network status. We are having trouble with our > DSL ISP. So the script pings several IPs on our way to the internet, tells > the user what is up and that is down (i.e. DEFAULT ROUTER (192.168.0.1) is > UP) and then writes a text file of all the output. They call me and repeat > what is on the screen. Pretty simple, I was just trying to make it > prettier (i.e. don't know how to print blank lines to the screen in a batch > file and can't get EDLIN to delete single characters or spaces on a line). > I repeat the exact same steps over and over and wanted to figure out how to > remove the redundancy. >
