[thelist] script alternative for static web site

[Diane Soini]

I am looking for a way to do file system operations on a server. Is 
there a way to use javascript? The server has no traditional scripting 
capabilites (i.e. cgi/perl, asp, php etc.) It's a Windows machine. I 
have no way to connect to it other than ftp and http.

What I want to do is traverse a tree of directories and read some 
files, process the info, then write out a file. What can be run 
(without installing anything) that will let me do that through http? On 
the other server I've got a nice perl script, but I'm stumped for what 
I could use on this other server given the limitations. Any suggestions?