Re: Scripting on NT

Java is not a scripting language. Your best bet would be to pick up ActivePerl 5.6 from activestate.com and Windows Scripting Host 2. WHS2 allows you to use ActivePerl as the scripting language if you choose (along with javascript and vbscript). Windows Services for Unix from MS (weird name since its really unix services for windows ;) contains many commands from MKS toolkit plus more, ActivePerl 5.6, NFS connectivity, etc. I believe its $149. You might want to look at that also.

Jason

"Aaron" <asentell_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8eca7p$19h$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Does anyone have an opinion about using Java? Of the two, Java and
> Perl, I tend to lean more toward Perl. Java seems like it would be
> extra work to have to compile source code. On the other hand, Oracle
> 8i has Java built in and Java is pretty much guaranteed to be portable
> across OS's.
>
> In article <8eaf8f$1hd$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> Aaron <asentell_at_my-deja.com> wrote:
> > I'm curious in hearing about other people's experiences with writing
> > scripts on NT. I just made the switch from Unix to NT, and I feel
 like
> > I'm working with one hand tied behind my back now. I need a good, low
> > cost solution. A product like MKS ($400 a pop) would be out of range.
> > Has anybody tried using perl or java? I would like to have something
> > that would be portable to Unix since we might be getting it around
 here
> > sometime in the future.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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> >
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Received on Fri Apr 28 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT