X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 68.147.131.211 From: Brian Inglis Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: OutWit console command line utilities package Organization: Systematic Software Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 21:07:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.71.223.147 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT shaw DOT ca X-Trace: pd7tw3no 1096664856 24.71.223.147 (Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:07:36 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:07:36 MDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I recently came across a package of useful console command line utilities which work with DJGPP (and cygwin) for those who like alt-tabbing between multiple shell Windows and scripting Windows operations. Diomidis Spinellis' OutWit http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/outwit provides binaries, sources, docs for: docprop read OLE (Office) document properties odbc send SQL to databases and get results readlink extract file name from shell shortcuts (.lnk) readlog read Windows event logs (not on W95) winclip cut/paste Windows clipboard to/from stdin/out/file winreg read/write Windows registry -- Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada Brian DOT Inglis AT CSi DOT com (Brian[dot]Inglis{at}SystematicSW[dot]ab[dot]ca) fake address use address above to reply