Re: TED--a Linux Xy-type editor?

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

At 03:55 PM 8/19/04 -0400, Patricia M Godfrey wrote:

>Windows also has its own Windows Scripting Host (WSH), which can run
>VisualBasicScript or JavaScript files, which can be created with a plain
>text editor. Search the archives for WSH, because Robert Holmgren gave me
>some very good advice and examples of VBS scripts a while back (late Oct.
>early Nov. 2003). Much as I HATE to say anything good about MicroSquid, I
>have to say that I've been playing around with VBS since then, and am
>finding it really useful.

>I was lucky enough to find a book that listed all the commands
>and functions (though hardly anything else); it's from O'Reilly (you
>know: all those computer books with Dover press pictures of animals,
>birds, or reptiles--no bugs, of course--on the covers), but it's over in
>the office right now, so I cannot recall the author or exact title.

Windows 98 Annoyances has an appendix on WSH, DOS batch files, and
scheduled tasks. . It looked pretty good but I haven't had the ambition to
read it yet. It has a toad on the cover.

Windows XP in a Nutshell also has a section on WSH. It has a frog on the
cover.

Norman

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