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Re: dsmc enhancement request

2004-09-20 20:41:06
Subject: Re: dsmc enhancement request
From: Mike <mikee AT MIKEE.ATH DOT CX>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:40:59 -0500
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, TSM_User wrote:

> Perl is installed by default with the NT resource kits and active perl has 
> become a pretty standard language for Windows.  You don't need to install 
> anything from cygwin.  Also you can use acitve states perl devlopers kit to 
> complie a *.pl into an *.exe and then you don't even need to install perl on 
> a windows system.
>
> Mike <mikee AT MIKEE.ATH DOT CX> wrote:On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Deon George wrote:
>
> > I started writing a perl script once upon a time ago to do exactly that -
> > a customer wanted to know what wasnt going into TSM... So this script
> > might do what you want YMMV - its been a while, so it might need some fine
> > tuning:
> >
> > I wrote it on Linux, with the intention that it run on Unix systems - so
> > you might need to do some cleanup for it to work on other OS'es...
> >
> > It's available here if you are interested
> > http://www.tuganz.org/filemgmt/visit.php?lid=15 If you make any
> > enhancements, please upload them!
>
> I'll look at the script, thanks. I specifically didn't do perl this
> time since the program will run in windows boxes and I didn't want
> to install all of cygwin just to do this task. If this functionality
> were native to dsmc, where all the data is anyway, things would be
> more easy.
>
> Mike

I'm not the nt admin. It is much easier for me to get a small binary
installed on their machines than insist that perl be installed.

Mike