RE: w2k scripting

[Guy Hammond]

Title: w2k scripting

Perl on Windows is great, when you consider things like manipulating the user database or system log, it's probably more useful on Windows than it is even on Unix. And DBI works the same on both platforms.

 

There is a thing called "Windows Scripting Host" which is available from MS (for free, I think) which is easy to use.

 

Also, there are products that provide a Unix shell scripting environment on Windows, but these tend to be a bit crufty.

 

g

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 10:15 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: w2k scripting

Bonjour,

I've been digging around for scripting documentation on w2k.  Microsoft's website talks about Jscript and vbscript and xml - none of which are my strengths and all look like they are much more complicated than I need.  I need to find a scripting language that will allow me to do simple things on w2k - fire export, fire backup, send me email/pages, etc.  If I wanted to learn another language,  I'd sit down and learn Perl, not xml/VBscript/Jscript!

Can anyone point me to a scripting language they have used on w2k?  All my scripts were in ksh...  I may just bite the bullet and learn Perl anyway.  I've got more than enough time.

Thanks in advance to anyone with suggestions
Lisa Koivu
Oracle Database Administrator
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA