Chapter 7 discusses batch and script file compilers in greater detail.
TIP
Even though this chapter doesn??™t discuss them, you??™ll find a wealth of shrink-wrap (commercial)
products on the market to enhance the command line. Many of them started as shareware, but
moved on to full commercial vendors and now provide only a product demonstration for free.
You can find some of these utilities on software brokering Web sites such as BMTMicro at
http://
www.bmtmicro.com/BMTCatalog/win/02system.html
. For example, the 4NT utility on this
Web site is an excellent command interpreter replacement that has a long history. Many of you
might have heard of it as 4DOS.
Automating Email Using sendEmail
The sendEmail program is interesting because it originally appeared on the Linux platform, not on
Windows. Essentially, sendEmail is a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) agent, so you don??™t
Working in Mixed Environments
Many administrators work in mixed environments today, so it??™s not surprising that they look for software
that has the same functionality in as many environments as possible. PromptPal and WinOne
look, more than any other utility in this chapter, like they bring the Windows command line much
closer to the functionality of the Linux command line environment (CLE).
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