> VBscript and Cygwin were the only options; both of them sucked. I'd challenge the Cygwin aspect. With judicious use of cygpath & co., you can go VERY far wit

> VBscript and Cygwin were the only options; both of them sucked. I'd challenge the Cygwin aspect. With judicious use of cygpath & co., you can go VERY far with Cygwin. I've built an entire SaaS deployment system on top of it (and Python).