On 10/7/2011 20:44, Jim Henderson wrote:
> The standard command interpreter in Windows (cmd.exe, not powershell)
> does pretty much suck.  bash/tcsh are *far* more powerful. :)

That wasn't the point, tho. :-) It doesn't really matter how much your CLI 
sucks if the goal is to avoid using it.  Anyway, wsh is probably a better 
comparison to bash than cmd.exe.

> But part of the suckage that is the Windows CLI is the registry.  Linux
> using text files for most configuration means that using the CLI to make
> changes actually makes a lot of sense.

Windows has no trouble dealing with the registry from the command line. 
Certainly less than trying to parse Apache config files with bash or 
something. For example:

http://216.101.58.3/MIS/Articles/RegistryEdit.htm

Sure, it's an extra install of the free developer tools, but hey.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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