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Number : 3970 Date : 2003-03-06 Author : meirman@e... Subject : Re: Directory names and create dates Size(KB) : 1
At 11:13 PM 3/5/03 -0000, agentxxl52 wrote: >--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, Jon Hugdahl wrote: > >> I would rename all the directories (ON the MO) to include the >> date stamp within the directory name. >> i.e. P000120 would be renamed to p021224 if p000120 was created >> on 2002/12/24. >> >> If there are a large number of directory, some playing around > >That last line I quoted was the understatement of the year (so >far). :) I have about 10 MO cartridges, 800MB each, hoding about 250 >directories each. That's a LOT of renaming.... I thought of this >route as well, but shelved it as a last resort. Thanks for the reply I'm guessing this is for work, fwiw. Anyway, I don't use dos as much as I did, and I never used the fancy stuff in 4dos , but you could probably write a batch file with 4dos that would do your renaming for you. It has a substring command. OTOH, you'd have to learn a few other things like how to read the file name into a string, which their newsgroup will explain to you if need be, and some general bat file stuff. 4dos is very powerful (It even has 3 or 4 extra options for Xcopy, but they are like Prompt and Wait. It's really a trifle, maybe 1%, compared to xxcopy.) and 4dos hasn't seemed to interfere with anything. I think it is 60 or 80 dollars. They also sell Take Command which in win 3.1 had a function which worked like cntl-alt-delete. It does other things, but I never understood what they were. Now that I have win98, I don't even remember if I bought that. And I have the pretty big Take Command manual. I just can't understand it. >though - instead it looks like I'm going to give Kan's obvious >suggestion of networking the machine a go. > >Dale > Meir meirman@e... Baltimore, MD, USA
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