{"id":1434,"date":"2009-07-17T21:52:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T21:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2025-01-15T14:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T14:43:16","slug":"scripting_on_windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/scripting_on_windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Scripting on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I need a couple of jobs done on my desktop machines (all Windows XP) and have been installing <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/aspn.activestate.com\/ASPN\/Tcl\">Activestate TCL<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on my windows systems for years. This page talks about my favourite, or favourite at the time.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>All these scripts use an icon placed in the standard installation graphics folder for <b>TCL<\/b>. This is at ${ROOT}\/lib\/tk8.5\/images<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three files are .gif format, TCL has format restrictions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/info.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/info.gif\" alt=\"info\" title=\"Info\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/question.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/question.gif\" alt=\"question\" title=\"query\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/warning.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/warning.gif\" alt=\"warning\" title=\"Warning\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My favourite source for icons for use with windows is the &#8220;Boomy Icon Set&#8221;. Use your favourite search engine to find it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MOTD<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I now have version 2.0, It reads a file and displays it in a windows, it allows you to dismiss the message from the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Diskcheck<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To remind people to turn on the E: drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WhatismyIP?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is necessary to play multi-user <b>diablo<\/b>. It displays the public ip address of the network, which is held by the gateway and the web server. I use &#8216;ping&#8217; and my web server, so only works for me, someone else&#8217;ll have to mod this. It has only been tested on <b>XP<\/b>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">ooOOOoo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three scripts and the icons are held in <a title=\"click to download\" href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tclscriptsforwindows.zip.zip\">tclscriptsforwindows.zip<\/a> and I have uploaded two of these to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dfl1955\/windows-tools\">my windows tools repo<\/a> on github.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need a couple of jobs done on my desktop machines (all Windows XP) and have been installing Activestate TCL on my windows systems for years. 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