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6 Oct 2007 12:57 AM
glav
Hello am new to the group and Windows Scripting.  In reading the beginning
information.  It says to open a "Command Box" and type in the VBScript
statement.  What is the Command Box?  How do access it?
Thanks for the help
Gene

Author
6 Oct 2007 1:24 AM
Richard Mueller [MVP]
Gene wrote:

> Hello am new to the group and Windows Scripting.  In reading the beginning
> information.  It says to open a "Command Box" and type in the VBScript
> statement.  What is the Command Box?  How do access it?
> Thanks for the help
> Gene

I would call it a command prompt. Go to "Start", "Run", enter "cmd", and
click "OK". You get a black "command prompt" where you can enter commands
like:

cscript Example.vbs

Then press Enter. This runs the program cscript.exe and passes to it the
name of the VBScript file Example.vbs. The cscript host runs the script,
executing the VBScript statements in the file Example.vbs. The above assumes
that the file "Example.vbs" is in the current directory. At a command prompt
you must navigate to the directory where the file "Example.vbs" is saved.
You can use DOS commands like cd (change directory) to do this. Or, you can
specify the path to the script in the command. For example at the command
prompt you could enter:

cscript c:\scripts\Example.vbs

If you are not comfortable at a command prompt, you can often run VBScript
programs by finding them in Windows Explorer and clicking on the *.vbs file
to run it. I hope this helps.

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Richard Mueller
Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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