On 6/12/08, Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > > WSH seems like overkill, not to mention a learning curve. It just seems > > like this should work more easily... > > It's a bit ugly to access the file system, but I didn't find it difficult > when starting from an example. > > Another possibility is to use an evaluation copy of the 4nt shell; I found > that many things that don't work well in cmd.exe do work there. > Why not use Cygwin/Bash? I am not that familiar with WSH but I think it can be of good use here. Or the new Windows Powershell (code name Monad). It is available for XP and Vista. Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist