SMLNJ on windows..

So I spent my first year at MS giving up on unix tools. Emacs was  my
only cruch. I figure I had to eat the dogfood for a full year before I
could curse the horrible command line tools. In the process, I
discoverd the command interperter (cmd.exe) on Windows has many useful
extensions that make life tollerable

The most important one is the %~dp0 voodo
it's roughly the same as  `dirname %0` what this means is that you
don't have to set SMLJ_HOME just put the cmd. scripts path and things
will work.

---sml.cmd---
@echo off
setlocal
if "%SMLNJ_HOME%" == "" set SMLNJ_HOME=%~dp0..
set CM_PATHCONFIG=%SMLNJ_HOME%\lib\pathconfig
"%SMLNJ_HOME%\bin\.run\run.x86-win32.exe"
"@SMLload=%SMLNJ_HOME%\bin\.heap\sml" %*
---snip---
This .cmd script should run on all systems that have a cmd.exe.
Windows 95-98 don't come with cmd.exe so they don't work.

I would love to check these changes in, but unfortunately I can
checkout the svn repository, because the admin scripts require "sh".
I'm tempted to rewrite them to .cmd for the windows users out there.

I'd like to see if I can get update the instructions on how to build
SMLNJ from sources on a windows vista box. I'll be using the compiler
tool chain that's part of the vista SDK that can be downloaded by
anyone from...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C2B1E300-F358-4523-B479-F53D234CDCCF&displaylang=en

In general though do you guys want to keep supporting 95-98? If so my
.cmd trickery is not useful, but if you don't care.. I'll try to get
things working and a clean source build on a stock vista box.

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