Here are two methods for enabling heterogeneous submission of jobs.  These are jobs that may run on a variety of platforms, such as both Windows and Linux.

{subsection: If Perl is available on all execute hosts}

A single batch script can be defined to work on all Windows and Linux machines.  If Perl is available on all potential execute machines, then depend on it, and write a Perl batch script.  Name the script with the extension =.pl=, and Windows machines will use this extension to identify and run it as a Perl script. The first line of the Perl script will have =#!=, letting Linux machines know what to do.

{subsection: TJ's shabang hack}