Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Tell Me Your Name

One of the rules I learned as a network administrator and as a consultant was to keep things simple. I’d therefore use short computer names and basic network designs as much as possible, because at some point, I’d be using ping.exe, tracert.exe, nslookup.exe, and so forth from the command line. As you know, I hate to type, so "the shorter the better" is my motto. This being the case, I am in somewhat of a quandary with this next section, because it will make the command-line implementation longer.

Reasons for Named Arguments

Despite additional typing, there are valid reasons to use named arguments. One of the biggest reasons is the way VBScript handles unnamed arguments. For instance, in the ArgComputerService script, you must ...