Cal You might try the following authors-- Woody Leonhard & Barry Simon -- "The Mother of all ... Book"s I find their books fun reading with a lot of detail. ...
Logan C. Kinnison
lckinni@...
Aug 2, 1999 5:58 pm
1583
Microsoft has implemented a com-based batch language called Windows Script Host for NT and Win98. The script engine accepts both Jscript and VBScript and (with...
David Feustel
dfeustel@...
Aug 13, 1999 10:37 pm
1584
... I haven't yet worked in XML or Spitbol, but I worked in SGML and OmniMark (the language) for a couple years ('94 - '95). Since then, OmniMark's syntax and...
Mark Laster
mlaster@...
Aug 14, 1999 5:03 am
1585
At 12:01 AM 08/14/1999 -0500, you wrote: .. ... Actually what I *really* want to accomplish is to get a version of CSnobol4 or Spitbol or both that support the...
David Feustel
dfeustel@...
Aug 14, 1999 12:21 pm
1586
... or Spitbol or both that support the Micorosft COM interface. That's turning out to be more work than I originally figured but I'm developing workarounds. I...
gep2@...
Aug 14, 1999 4:03 pm
1587
Greetings, I have also noticed "windows script host", and as I read it, this is Billy's delivery on his promise that "all programming will be in basic' (or...
Bob Watkins
rbw@...
Aug 14, 1999 4:21 pm
1588
... exactly ... The interface must be COM. The COM interface is thoroughly documented and even conceptually simple, but not practically so. ... You can already...
David Feustel
dfeustel@...
Aug 14, 1999 4:46 pm
1589
... difficult. ... Microsoft now has File/Directory com objects available for Windows Script Hosting, so a Script Host version of Spitbol and or CSnobol4...
David Feustel
dfeustel@...
Aug 14, 1999 4:56 pm
1590
... difficult. ... Hosting, so a Script Host version of Spitbol and or CSnobol4 would not have to have its own file i/o code if all of its needs were met by...
gep2@...
Aug 14, 1999 5:13 pm
1591
Clinton Jeffrey is moving from UT to UNLV. DOes anyone know his new email address and/or website address? Thanks. -- David Feustel Fort Wayne, Indiana ...
David Feustel
dfeustel@...
Aug 14, 1999 11:16 pm
1592
Hi to Everyone, I've recently learned about a language called Dylan ( http://www.gwydiondylan.org/, http://www.harlequin.com/products/ads/dylan/ ) I'm...
Dennis Newbold
dennisn@...
Aug 15, 1999 4:41 pm
1593
Why isn't TYPEVALS[1] the same as $('TYPEVALS[1]')? I put a value in $('TYPEVALS[1]') (actually, creating the 'TYPEVALS[1]' = array reference from some...
Steve Rea
srea@...
Aug 19, 1999 3:47 pm
1594
(I don't know what those "=3D" characters in my message came from. They weren't there when I sent it, and, I've never seen that before with messages I've sent....
Steve Rea
srea@...
Aug 19, 1999 4:06 pm
1595
Steve> Why isn't TYPEVALS[1] the same as $('TYPEVALS[1]')? Because TYPEVALS[1] is the variable that is the result of indexing TYPEVALS with the value 1, and...
Andrew Koenig
ark@...
Aug 19, 1999 4:23 pm
1596
That's it. Using $('TYPEVALS')[1] instead of $('TYPEVALS[1]') gave me the results I was looking for. Thanks for your prompt reply. Stephen Rea...
Steve Rea
srea@...
Aug 19, 1999 4:37 pm
1597
... $("blah") references a variable named blah. If blah happens to have syntactically significant characters within it, they are not treated specially. You...
Mark Emmer
marke@...
Aug 19, 1999 4:42 pm
1598
the =3D charactrers are encoding sequences to make sure that upper half characters can be sent (e.g. accented letters). Given you are an english speaker and...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Aug 19, 1999 4:53 pm
1599
If you want to get the "name" of an array, table, or DATA element you can't use quotes; that only works for scalars. You have to use the '.' (nameof)...
Phil Budne
phil@...
Aug 19, 1999 4:54 pm
1600
Phil said If you want to get the "name" of an array, table, or DATA element you can't use quotes; that only works for scalars. You have to use the '.'...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Aug 19, 1999 5:04 pm
1601
Microsofts Windows Script Host 2.0 supports stdin, stdout and stderr. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/languages/clinic/scripting061499.asp Also, there...
David Feustel
dfeustel@...
Aug 26, 1999 2:36 pm
1602
... [snip] ... [snip] does it come with full source code? is it available for unix and macintosh? if the answer's no, it doesn't really matter what features...
Andru Luvisi
luvisi@...
Aug 26, 1999 6:17 pm
1603
The WSH 2.0 currently supports 2 script engines: VBScript and Javascript. Using WSH you can drive other COM programs using command line scripts that send...
David Feustel
dfeustel@...
Aug 26, 1999 8:32 pm
1604
- Recently -- in the WSH thread -- David wrote...: On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, David Feustel wrote: ...snipped... ... .. ... - A March '99 released $59.95 PERL-based...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Aug 26, 1999 9:32 pm
1605
- Thanks to David for focusing on the WSH, a very useful service! ...and...: On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, David Feustel wrote: ...snipped... ... - Readers are reminded...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Aug 26, 1999 9:44 pm
1606
... [snip] ... [snip] ... Of course not. Nor does almost any other commercially available software (including stuff from Lotus, IBM, Corel, Novell, or a host...
gep2@...
Aug 27, 1999 2:25 am
1607
I found the WSH thread Mike mentioned. A whole bunch of new features have been added in version 2.0 of WSH. news://microsoft.public.scripting.(hosting |...
David Feustel
dfeustel@...
Aug 26, 1999 10:37 pm
1608
... No source code. Only runs on Win98, WinNT 4.0 and Win2000 as far as I know. Com support for Unix is available from http://www.softwareag.com. David...
David Feustel
dfeustel@...
Aug 26, 1999 6:24 pm
1609
Hi, I think I touched on this before... What they have done is to create a way to install 'scripting engines' for windows, much like 'bat' files allowed you...
Bob Watkins
rbw@...
Aug 26, 1999 8:08 pm
1610
WSH 2.0 provides regex com object that finds all the matches of a regex and saves the values of the matches for retrieval. see...
David Feustel
dfeustel@...
Aug 26, 1999 10:51 pm
1611
... I suspected as much. how did you find this out? or are you just assuming it based on a high probability? ... pity. it does seem odd that you would say...
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