Ever need to send a one-line email from a DOS/CMD batch file? If your PC or Server has .Net 2 installed you can use this application. It’s straightforward. Place the cmdSendmail.exe in your path or working directory and then type something like this at the command line:- cmdSendMail you@emailtest.com~you@somewherelse.com~The Subject~The main text of the message~you@somewherelse.com~pass123~mail.somewherelse.com [...]
Sometimes it’s useful to extract a web page to a file from a Windows batch. For example I have a batch file that downloads financial figures every day, processes them and updates a database. vbcurl http://myfinancialfigures.com/something.php >mydatafile.htm If you don’t have a copy of Opera handy use a statement like the following to read the [...]
