No powershell, it's very tightly locked down

Maybe someone can give feedback (will it work) on this hack

Hmmm ... If there's no easy, quick way I'll try to run a windows VM at 
home,  
install in that VM, and copy racket from the VM's Windows 
"Program Files"
 folder to a USB, and put that on my work machine

On Saturday, June 18, 2022 at 2:55:21 PM UTC-4 Bruce O'Neel wrote:

> HI,
>
> So before I would download the minimal windows tar file to a linux system, 
> untar it, and then zip it back up.
>
> Then that could be copied to the corporate windows system and unzipped. 
>  And that give a minimal Racket.
>
> The part that has stopped working is I used to be able to, from cmd, run:
>
> raco pkg install -i racket-lib
> raco pkg install --deps search-auto -i main-distribution
>
> And I would have a fully working Racket.
>
> So this required cmd.exe to be run.  Can you run Powershell?  That can be 
> convinced to do those commands as well but I don't know how to do that. 
>  There might even be some way in minimal racket to convince those commands 
> to be run.
>
> What does not work anymore is that one of the packages is blocked by the 
> corporate proxy now as a "virus" so minimal racket it is.
>
> cheers
>
> bruce
>
> On 2022-06-18T18:06:54.000+02:00, [email protected] <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> Is there a plain ZIP file for kind-of installing racket? (must be ZIP - I 
> can't even get a 7zip uninstaller installed).
> I won't be able to put it in the standard Program Files folder and can't 
> associate rkt files but I'm allowed to set up a plain directory and run 
> from there. 
>
> I may download and work with files, but I have no admin on this 
> Windows 10 system
> not even cmd - it's disallowed.
>
>
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