From: rose.joseph12@yahoo.com   
      
   On Thursday, December 12, 2013 12:01:42 PM UTC-5, Robert Roland wrote:   
   > Does it have to be batch? Batch on DOS based machines is quite puny   
   > stuff.   
   >   
   Understood.  On the DOS computer, I could use VBDOS Pro 1.0 to do my work, but   
   that doesn't help on the Win98 computer.   
      
   > Vbscript was installed by default in Win98. It was a very early   
   > version, but still a bazillion times more powerful than batch. You can   
   > also upgrade it. If you have the SE version of Win98, you can upgrade   
   > to the latest version of Vbscript (5.6).   
   >   
   I didn't know about Vbscript.  I heard about it somewhere but didn't recognize   
   it.  Where can I get basic docs. on it?   
      
   > Vbscript won't work in pure DOS, though. For that, I'd take look at an   
   > old version of Kixtart:   
   >   
   > http://kixtart.org/downloads/old_downloads.html   
   >   
   Before I download it, what can it do that VBDOS can't?   
      
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