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Re: Redirecting VB script sub shell standard output

From	vincent.belaiche@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
Subject	Re: Redirecting VB script sub shell standard output
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Date	2011-10-19 19:31 +0200
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"Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de> writes:

> Vincent Belaïche <vincent.belaiche@gmail.com> schrieb im Beitrag
> <80d3dzctch.fsf@gmail.com>...
>> ...that I used to
>> launch some MSDOS script before, but MSDOS seems less futureproof.
>
> It depends on what you are talking about:
> - MS-DOS as an operating system has already lost its future a longer time
> ago now.
> - But presumably you are talking about the command line of Windows XP and
> later versions of Windows which is _not_ the operating system MS-DOS but
> simply a command shell which consist of a console (without graphical user
> interface) with a command line and a command interpreter which supports
> certain DOS-like commands. There is no reason to think that this one has no
> future.

Yes, I was not referring to command.com, but to cmd.exe, the command
line shell.

I do not think that cmd.exe will suddenly disappear, however I don't
think that it will get any new features and evolve. Anyhow VBS is more
flexible and easy to use, even though the syntax is less concise.

  Vincent

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Redirecting VB script sub shell standard output vincent.belaiche@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche) - 2011-10-09 22:12 +0200
  Re: Redirecting VB script sub shell standard output Ron Weiner <NoOne@NoWare.NutThing> - 2011-10-09 18:01 -0400
    Re: Redirecting VB script sub shell standard output vincent.belaiche@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche) - 2011-10-10 08:02 +0200
      Re: Redirecting VB script sub shell standard output ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-10-10 01:50 -0500
        Re: Redirecting VB script sub shell standard output vincent.belaiche@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche) - 2011-10-11 07:27 +0200
          Re: Redirecting VB script sub shell standard output vincent.belaiche@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche) - 2011-10-11 22:32 +0200
            Re: Redirecting VB script sub shell standard output Ron Weiner <NoOne@NoWare.NutThing> - 2011-10-11 21:04 -0400
              Re: Redirecting VB script sub shell standard output vincent.belaiche@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche) - 2011-10-14 20:37 +0200
                Re: Redirecting VB script sub shell standard output "Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de> - 2011-10-14 20:55 +0000
                Re: Redirecting VB script sub shell standard output vincent.belaiche@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche) - 2011-10-19 19:31 +0200
  Re: Redirecting VB script sub shell standard output ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-10-09 21:45 -0500
  Re: Redirecting VB script sub shell standard output Eric Coleman <eric@strategon.com> - 2011-10-13 19:45 -0500
    Re: Redirecting VB script sub shell standard output vincent.belaiche@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche) - 2011-10-14 20:14 +0200

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