' ask the scripting runtime environemt for access to files set FS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") set FileHandler = FS.GetFile("../VERSION") set inputTextStream = FileHandler.OpenAsTextStream(1) version = inputTextStream.ReadLine WScript.Echo "Version: " & version set outputTextStream = FS.CreateTextFile("../version.h",true) outputTextStream.WriteLine "#define HISAT2_VERSION """ & version & """" outputTextStream.close