can I run php on my wintel as a non-web script language

Hello, I think PHP is awesome. A thought just occurred to me. PHP has tons of text and file manipulation functions. Can I run the PHP "interpreter" on its own on my Win 98 machine? For example, I downloaded the php distribution for windows and there is the cgi binary. Can I do php myscript.php and assume the output is to the screen? That would be cool. I wonder how functions like mail() would work, however. Would the windows PHP use winsock to do this function? If this works, this has great promise, at least for me. Its like batch file/scripting for windows on steroids, without me having to learn VB Script or some other inferior language. Alan

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