Re: Windows XP script language

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:28:34 GMT, "Christopher Jung" <cjung_at_blank.com> wrote:

>I believe Microsoft made its "Services for Unix" toolset free last year.
>Includes shells, perl, vi, some other stuff.
>
>"Jean-Benoit MORLA" <jbmorla_at_tiscali.fr> wrote in message
>news:ea6556b4.0501210234.4047ce7_at_posting.google.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just installed Oracle 10.1.0g on a windows XP platform.
>> A few years back I was DBA on NT and I discovered a script language
>> called kiks32 or cics32.
>> I did a google search but found nothing.
>> Anyone knows where it's gone?
>> Or else, can someone indicate a scripting language that runs on XP pro
>> to do simple dba tasks?
>

hmm.. wonder if a little of that might not have already been built in. On my Win2k machine, while switching back and forth between telnet sessions to Solaris and local command prompts, I often inadvertenly enter an 'ls -l' command at the local dos prompt. Lo and behold, it returns a Unix-like file listing!
Thanks.

• Ed Stevens

Cohn's Law: The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less time you have to do anything. Stability is achieved when you spend all your time doing nothing but reporting on the nothing you are doing. Received on Fri Jan 21 2005 - 13:02:21 CST