Scripting is often seen as something only IT admins do to lengthen their coffee breaks, but home users can benefit from ...

Batch files, though far less sophisticated than their Unix shell script counterparts, nonetheless have many of the important features that I have become accustomed to working with on my Unix systems.

I've inheritied a messy login script situation. There are huge chains of .cmd files that call other cmd files, which call other cmd files, which call tcl scripts, which call yet more cmd files ...