On 2018-12-04, Kenny McCormack  wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > J.O. Aho  wrote:   
   >>On 12/4/18 5:50 PM, Mike Easter wrote:   
   >>> ttp wrote:   
   >>>> Convert windows based batch file to linux based shell script.   
   >>>> https://www.example.com/online-batch-file-shell-script-converter/   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>> That is an interesting idea.  It seems to me that it would have to be a   
   >>> very sophisticated program.  I wonder what happens - what the result or   
   >>> 'error' is - when it is challenged with something that doesn't solve   
   >>> according to its algo.   
   >>>   
   >>> There are a zillion .bat files out there that one could choose to mess   
   >>> around with it.   
   >>   
   >>Most of the bat-files will not be useful to run on a Linux/Unix system.   
   >   
   > Yes, I'm too lazy to goto/access the site.  Sue me.   
   >   
   > But I'd like to see some discussion and examples here of some inputs and   
   > outputs from this process.   
   >   
   > Natually, I'm as sceptical as anyone about both the efficacy and the   
   > utility of this conversion process.   
      
   It doesn't work. it fails on simple constructs like "if errorlevel"   
      
      
   In dos 3 batch was dragged kicking and screaming into turing   
   completeness, it took like 50 lines of code to add two numbers.   
      
      
   later versions had arithmetic built in.   
      
   --   
     When I tried casting out nines I made a hash of it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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