different shells

[Stephen Waters]

Joel Miles wrote:
> 
> > Well, with some REALLY complex scripting, you might be able to accomplish
> > that.  You know, parse win.ini, check to see what the value of the SHELL
> > line is, compare that to what it should be for that user.  If it's
> > different, replace it and reboot, if it's the same, then just log them in.
> > Greg
> 
> Do you know where I could get some help in writing this (also, what language
> would I use, Perl?)?

if you have perl for win32 on all of your workstations, this might be
workable. otherwise, you should probably use a .bat file with some
decent text manipulation utilites (kind of a "cat win.ini |grep shell"
bash comparison thing), though i'm not a .bat genius.

just a thought,

-stephen