DosTips.com

I just have a question here, like most others

Why not make this site into a general scripting forum?

Just make several forums within board index for for example C++, Expression 2, AutoHotKey, Visual Basic Ect...

I personally think more people would come visit this site and it might get more people to do batch too

Basically, this would help people get their skillz goin' and some people like showing off and some like getting tested.

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I've heard that before

IMO it's a great idea, because noone should be locked on one scripting language, everyone should try expanding a bit.

(personally i have been trying to expand to java... it did not go well so i went back to batch a bit)

This is definitely an option and I have been thinking about it since quite some time.

I must say though that I never liked the forum solution for collaboration as it leads to long topic by topic question/answer chains that are difficult to search and navigate when looking for solutions. A forum is good for solving one specific problem that is ask by one specific user.

The ideal collaboration platform allows users to develop page content, more like a wiki, so that all visitors can easily benefit from the posted solutions, not only the user whose questions was answered. So far I haven't found a free wiki software that is suitable.

Currently this website contains web pages and a forum for command-line and batch programming.
If we would add forums for other scripting languages, then it should probably also contain web pages for these languages.

Comments/suggestions/ideas anyone?

Exouxas wrote:I just have a question here, like most others

Why not make this site into a general scripting forum?

Just make several forums within board index for for example C++, Expression 2, AutoHotKey, Visual Basic Ect...

I personally think more people would come visit this site and it might get more people to do batch too

Basically, this would help people get their skillz goin' and some people like showing off and some like getting tested.

Naw, that's too general. But I would like it if they expanded more sections for more DOS scripting/programming languages.

Such as sections for:
MS-DOS - Batch
MS-DOS - Powershell
MS-DOS - Assembly

If you are running a newer computer, such as Windows Vista and Windows 7, open up CMD.EXE and type in "powershell" to go into the Windows Powershell console (if you type in "start powershell_ise", it will load the Powershell GUI).

If you are on an older computer, load up CMD.EXE and type in "debug". This will start the DEBUG console. With this you can write Assembly codes (or read Assembly codes from a file) and compile/assemble them to COM files.

There is such thing as MS-DOS Assembly. Such as if you were coding your own OS, "int 21" wouldn't function properly. But it works just fine on Windows operating systems. You can also download libraries for Windows and do more advanced Windows things.