[luau] Programming List

[Warren Togami]

Have you considered using Cygwin on Windows 2000?  That would allow you
to use a full bash shell and almost any BSD Unix or GNU tool natively.

http://www.cygwin.com

On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 12:26, Dustin Cross wrote:

> I know about several options for windows, but this script has to run on any
> plain old win2k workstation without the NON-TECH users having to do
> anything but "double-click" the icon on the desktop and send me the output
> file.  It would be nice if I could get it to mail me the file, but I am not
> that advanced yet.
> 
> Basically the script checks network status.  We are having trouble with our
> DSL ISP.  So the script pings several IPs on our way to the internet, tells
> the user what is up and that is down (i.e.  DEFAULT ROUTER (192.168.0.1) is
> UP) and then writes a text file of all the output.  They call me and repeat
> what is on the screen.  Pretty simple, I was just trying to make it
> prettier (i.e. don't know how to print blank lines to the screen in a batch
> file and can't get EDLIN to delete single characters or spaces on a line).
> I repeat the exact same steps over and over and wanted to figure out how to
> remove the redundancy.
>