From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-05-18T14:02:37+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby in WinXP as an automation tool

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On May 17, 2005, at 10:53 PM, Gavin Kistner wrote:
> (Suggestions on cleaner ways to do things are welcome; I really  
> don't understand OLE at all, or the WMI service. Although I did  
> find this list[1] of properties which you can access on the  
> processes returned by the InstancesOf call.)

Ooh, and I just found this url[2] which links to some tasty scripts  
showing how to use WMI to automate all sorts of tasks on  Windows.  
(The examples are in VBScript, but I think that it should be  
relatively easy to directly port them to Ruby, given the code I  
already supplied. And possibly this page[3])

[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/ 
wmi_tasks_for_scripts_and_applications.asp
[3] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/swbemservices.asp

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