How to? "Script" command -- using to list installed/active WSH engines

[Polaris2310]

When one types the command script by itself, it prints out a list of which Windows Script Host scripting engines are active. How exactly does this work . . . for example, if one wanted to write some Visual Basic, C, Perl, -- and for that matter, if possible, 4NT/TC, windows shell (cmd.exe), PowerShell, or via a WSH language like VBScript. . . -- or other code to retrieve the list of engines, how would that be done, and is other information available about the engines (such as default file extension for scripts, version number, filename/path, or other information) ?

Furthermore, is there a programmatic way to load engines and otherwise manipulate them -- with TC or by other means?

 

[rconn]

Windows Script Host engines register themselves (via COM), and TCC uses COM to retrieve the list of available engines, and to pass the appropriate engine the script name & parameters to execute.

You can get details on how to do it on MSDN.