Re: Scripts

From: Clayton (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 04:16:34 -0800

Hehe...
Dont worry the Unix guy is not intimidating me, I bust on
him on a daily basis....:)
Actually we are on the brink of getting Unix outa here.
We had been using SFU, Services For Unix due to the fact
that this company had used Unix for their production
environment.
With the change of Command around here we have been
steadily trying to move everything to Windows, SFU was one
of those "Quick Fix" things that was supposed to make our
life easier....NOT....!!
So now we have several programmers working on a proprietary
Unix program that does inspections for this company, and
their job is to convert this into a Windows EXE...
Such is life, since we are moving to Windows the Unix guy
has no idea how to reproduce his cleanup scripts in
Winodws....imagine that..hehe.
Nor do I, since I am more into networking than scripting.
The unix program creates hundreds of what we would call
temp or dead files on the system that his scripts go in
and clean out, which save me disk space in the long run.
Creating a Windows script to do the same tasks would be
helpful.
See Ya

>-----Original Message-----
>You delete my old files from my department's network
shares, and I'll come
>looking for you. Then we'll both make the local news. ;-)
>
>May I recommend that you look at both Remote Storage
Services and at Offline
>Storage? If your shares are well-organized, you ought to
be able to archive
>to long-term storage files from old projects or that sort
of thing. But in
>my experience, people will go back to 'dead' files, read
them, or take a
>copy as the basis for a new document. Just because no one
has needed to
>update the Programming Style Guidelines manual in nearly
three years does
>not mean no one is using it. And disk is cheap these
days, relatively
>speaking. It's just a matter of managing, although these
days its more a
>matter of AV scanning taking too long than backups taking
too long.
>
>And don't let your UNIX guy intimidate you. Read the UNIX-
Haters Handbook,
>and you'll realize that some folks consider losing your
data a right of
>passage. ;-)
>--
>Greg Stigers, MCSA
>this space for rent
>
>
>.
>

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