Things to Note About the ESSCMD Script Utility

  1. The utility will only translate syntactically and semantically valid ESSCMD scripts.

  2. For invalid ESSCMD scripts, the resulting MaxL script is undefined.

  3. All ESSCMD statements in the scripts should end with a semicolon ( ; ) statement terminator.

  4. This utility will only work on Windows platforms.

  5. Although most ESSCMD commands have corresponding MaxL statements, there are exceptions. For such exceptions, a comment will be generated in the logfile, and the resulting MaxL script will have to be modified to work correctly. Note that if an ESSCMD command is still needed, it can be invoked from a MaxL script using shell esscmd <scriptname>.

  6. All strings in the ESSCMD scripts should be surrounded by double quotation marks ("").