title: What is the equivalent of a Batch ECHO Command using VBScript?
body: <p>We currently use Windows Batch (DOS) command files to control our process flow. To display messages to the Console, we would use the ECHO command. These messages would show up in our Scheduler software, which used to be Tivoli and now is CA WA Workstation\ ESP.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to start using VBS files instead of CMD\BAT files and am trying to figure out how to do the equivalent of an ECHO to the console.</p>
  
  <p>When I try to use either the WScript.Echo command or write to Standard Out, the messages are displayed in dialog boxes for both and they require the OK button to be pushed to continue. Not surprisingly, when I run unattended though a scheduler, the job hits one of these commands and just hangs since there is no one to OK the messagebox.</p>
  
  <pre><code>SET FS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
  SET StdOut = FS.GetStandardStream(1)
  StdOut.Write("Test 1")
  
  WScript.echo("Test 2")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I realize I could write the messages to a Log file using the Scripting object, but this could fail if an invalid path is provided or because of insufficient permissions. Besides, being able to see feedback write within the Scheduler is awfully convenient. </p>
  
  <p>How do I write to the Console using VBScript? I’ve seen other posts here that suggest that the above methods which didn't work for the reason describe above were the way to do it.</p>