Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3E4BE741.C5A6BDE8@isg.de> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:43:13 +0100 From: Tino Lange Organization: IS Innovative Software AG X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Citek Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: NT wrappers References: <070b01c2d368$ee4bcdc0$9c00140a@uk.circle.com> <070b01c2d368$ee4bcdc0$9c00140a@uk.circle.com> <3.0.5.32.20030213092743.01d5cb88@mail.earthlink.net> <078701c2d376$4fd7a750$9c00140a@uk.circle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! The "MS way" of scripting applications is generally *not* using the commandline but using (D)COM. This can be done via lots of languages, very easy for example with VBscript. Your wrapper will look something like that: set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") ie.Navigate("http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/") READYSTATE_COMPLETE = 4 Do ' wait until page is loaded WScript.Sleep 10 Loop Until ie.ReadyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE ie.document.body.focus() OLECMDID_PRINT = 6 OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER = 2 ie.execWB OLECMDID_PRINT, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER WScript.Sleep 5000 ' let ie some time to print before destroying... ie.quit But: As Vince wrote this is quite offtopic here... Cheers Tino > ----- Original Message ----- Vince Hoffman wrote: > Use the source ;) oops you can't. > umm well if using /? or -? or /h or /help or any variation doesnt work then > have a search on the net. There is no magic way to find out otherwise. ( To > be honest you'd do much better asking on an MS related newsgroup/maillist) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Citek" > To: > Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 3:27 PM > Subject: NT wrappers > > > > > How can I discover what the command line options are to an NT program? > > > > I would like to write wrappers around some NT programs so that they are > > easier to use from bash. For example, I would like to write a wrapper so > > that something like this is possible: > > $ explorer --print http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin > > This would use MS Explorer to render the page and print it. Of course, > > Explorer is just one example. > > > > Regards, > > - Robert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/