RE: word of the day

[Donald Hines <d_roman_hines -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

In addition to DOS, Windows has PowerShell, an "extensible automation engine" which includes a shell and a scripting language. PowerShell requires the .NET framework, so overhead is a tad high :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell

/Donald

> From: lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: word of the day
> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:11:04 -0800
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> 
> On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> 
> > "Interactive shell"? A shell is by definition interactive, no?
> 
> No, shell scripts are not interactive.  Unless they have a menu  
> system.  :)
> 
> "Interactive shell" is a Unix term, BTW, and refers specifically to an  
> actual shell (bash, csh, tcsh, etc).  The only shell in Windows is DOS.
> 
> Laura
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