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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:45:28 -0600
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At 07:43 PM 2/13/2003 +0100, Tino Lange wrote:
>The "MS way" of scripting applications is generally *not* using the
>commandline but using (D)COM.

Exactly.  Which is why I want to write a command-line wrapper for at least
some of the DCOM functionality.

>This can be done via lots of languages, very easy for example with
>VBscript.
>
>Your wrapper will look something like that:
...

Thanks for the DCOM reference and the coding example.

>But: As Vince wrote this is quite offtopic here...

Here is a script called "write" that allows me to use WordPad from within
Cygwin:

  #!/bin/bash
  [ "$1" = "" ] && exec /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/write
  [ ! -f "$1" ] && touch "$1"
  exec /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/write "$(cygpath -w "$1" )"

Why is modifying such a script to accept additional command-line arguments
not germaine to this list?

Regards,
- Robert


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