Sample Programs Using DOS 8.3 Filenames

The HTML pages and sample programs contained in this .ZIP file are slightly modified versions of those contained on the CD-ROM accompanying the book Learning VBScript. In particular, filenames, links, and VBScript code have all been modified to use standard DOS 8.3 filenames, rather than the long filenames supported by Windows 95/NT. We have made this file available primarily to users of the 32-bit Microsoft operating systems who are continuing to use 16-bit CD-ROM drivers.

However, this is not a 16-bit version of the Learning VBScript CD-ROM for Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows 3.1. Many of the sample programs take advantage of language features specific to VBScript Version 2.0. This is particularly true of the framework for executing and browsing the sample programs, which relies on the VBScript 2.0 Dictionary object. The 16-bit versions of MSIE 3.x, however, support only VBScript Version 1. As a result, the framework defined by loading INDEX.HTM, the main Learning VBScript HTML page, does not allow access to any sample programs under MSIE 3.x for Windows 3.1, nor do those sample web pages whose scripts take advantage of features introduced in VBScript 2.0 function correctly.

If you nevertheless want to try the sample programs on Windows 3.1, even though we do not support this platform, you can determine which examples correspond to which HTML files by examining the file TITLE.HTM. The series of calls to the dicPages object's Add method provide the example number and the corresponding filename of each sample program.