Re: [WinMac] What Windows programs can do the same thing

Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 09:07:39 -0400

At 06:11 PM 9/10/98 -0700, Darryl Lee wrote:
>> Is there an equivalent to Applescript on WIndows/NT besides
>> the generic batch files?
>
>There's the wildly popular (heh) Frontier, at www.scripting.com
>There's the wonderfully powerful (but somewhat difficult) Perl, at
> www.perl.org
>There's something called KixStart, that i know nothing about.
>
>That's a start, at least.
>
>Oh, and there's tcl for Windows too.

I believe that when it comes to ease-of-use, there's nothing comparable to
AppleScript for Windows. However there are many options for scripting
beyond DOS command batches. Darryl mentioned some of them.

Perl is popular because it's free and available for multiple platforms
(Mac, Win, UNIX). KixStart is popular because it's included in the NT
Resource Kit (I think it's commercialware and the Resource Kit version is
older). The relatively new scripting language is Windows Scripting Host
from Microsoft which is now included in Win98 and is downloadable for
95/NT. Actually the language(s) are not new, Windows Scripting Host scripts
are in either Visual Basic or Javascript (MS's own flavor of it I think).
It will probably become popular because it's bundled with the OS and
because is uses two popular, established languages.

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