command line access in ASP (was RE: [thelist] How do you ping in asp?)

[Joel D Canfield]

>    You can also get components that let you access the 
> command line (i.e. the DOS prompt) from which you can then 
> issue any commands that you would normally use from there.

You can access the command line with VBScript. No components necessary.
Makes lots of automation scripting for our legacy systems much nicer.

joel