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How to Echo output to file as ANSI and NOT as Unicode?
Posted on May 23rd, 2008 | 0 Comments

From a DOS batch script (under WinXP) I redirect some Echo output to a new textfile e.g. Echo blah blah >myfile.txt Echo .... >>myfile.txt The resulting file is saved as Unicode style instead of...

Save 5 backup copies
Posted on May 20th, 2008 | 8 Comments

foxidrive schreef: oeps, indeed gnu, but MOVE should word also... ;-) D:\TEMP\temp>mv --version mv (GNU coreutils) 6.10 Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL...

%0 %1 %2... Command line switches
Posted on May 20th, 2008 | 24 Comments

Todd Vargo wrote: 1. PUSHPOS started out as a way for a site to PUSH the information we normally POLL for. So if we couldn't get to a site for polling info, then we could have the site PUSH the...

CALL XSET32
Posted on May 19th, 2008 | 10 Comments

Richard Bonner wrote: Conflicting reports somewhere I guess. I read it as not having a space, and I had a problem, the author contacted me last night/this AM and said my problem was that I...

If File not modified today command
Posted on May 17th, 2008 | 18 Comments

Tom Lavedas wrote: FWIW, I get this result using Win95cmd in Win98. E:\>echo %date% Sat 05/17/2008 E:\>type nul>test

DOS Utility PKA.COM
Posted on May 16th, 2008 | 12 Comments

Richard Bonner wrote: Richard: Perhaps you can find what you need here: http://www.math.utah.edu/ftp/pub/ibmpc/ http://files.oldos.org/files/dos/pkarc36.zip

Controlling script execution without environment variables based onfile content
Posted on May 16th, 2008 | 2 Comments

On May 16, 7:32 am, ak...@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) replied: Dude, you HAVE to go to gnuwin32.sourceforge.net - the core utilities and text utilities there, alongside the GNU version of grep...

Write all output to log file
Posted on May 16th, 2008 | 11 Comments

Ted Davis, I just visited your site... http://gearbox.maem.umr.edu/batch/intrin1.htm ....and all I can say is ... Why didn't I reach to it before "wasting" more than 2 hours trying to get the...

iterate pslist results
Posted on May 15th, 2008 | 3 Comments

On Thu, 15 May 2008 09:45:37 GMT, thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> wrote: This returns the following, as an example, in fileout.txt: svchost 1224,1288,1624,1936,312,592 @echo off (for /F...

"IP Scanner"
Posted on May 14th, 2008 | 5 Comments

On May 14, 10:34 am, monoco <gbarra...@gmail.com> wrote: The type of redirection, StdOut or StdErr, does not necessarily correspond with the ERRORLEVEL resulting from a particular operation. For...

Finding Duplicate URLs
Posted on May 14th, 2008 | 13 Comments

"Todd Vargo" <tlvargo@sbcglobal.netz> wrote: Here's one possible solution, providing a big speed boost (from well over five minutes to 16 seconds) on a large data...

Find service's name from executable
Posted on May 12th, 2008 | 5 Comments

"Flash08" <stuart.karp@gmail.com> wrote in message news:c618fb03-a680-4d66-87e3-49ef490ea52c@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com... Since your service name may contain spaces, here's another way. This...

how to copy files use less commonds in my case?
Posted on May 11th, 2008 | 11 Comments

foxidrive (gotcha@woohoo.invalid) wrote: *** OK. I guess I will have to accept that explanation. (-: Richard Bonner http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/

dos copy with time
Posted on May 9th, 2008 | 11 Comments

Dr J R Stockton (jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk) wrote: *** I agree. Isn't education part of what discussion groups are for? Richard Bonner http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/

Mass change of time ?
Posted on May 7th, 2008 | 1 Comments

In article <9b69$4821bd13$5470384a$20762@news.chello.at>, Franz Huber <huber127@aol.com> wrote: I've used JHEAD, an Exif Jpg header manipulation tool, to synchronize the times in pictures taken with...

Copy while keeping log
Posted on May 4th, 2008 | 5 Comments

On Sat, 03 May 2008 07:30:09 -0700, lisztnet wrote: You seem to have posted from Win9x - if that is the OS in question, there really isn't a particularly simple way to do it without...

Batch File with Variable to SQL Server
Posted on April 30th, 2008 | 1 Comments

douglascfast@hotmail.com wrote: Remove the spaces around the =. @Set /p MyNum=Please enter employee number: Echo you entered %MyNum% -- Todd Vargo (Post questions to group only. Remove "z" to...

@.com ?
Posted on April 29th, 2008 | 34 Comments

raster@highfiber.com wrote: *** I grew up with it and hate it. Too many numbers to remember, too complicated in which to calculate, too illogical. The only thing the Imperial system measures for...

starting programs minimised
Posted on April 28th, 2008 | 3 Comments

On Apr 28, 6:12 am, "PC" <P...@PC.bluyonder.co.uk> wrote: By 'maximized' do you really mean 'full screen'? That is, the command console completely covers the screen with no margins or title...

File not found
Posted on April 19th, 2008 | 7 Comments

"billious" <billious_1954@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:48083f9f$0$19332$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.com... Ah, but OP did not specify OS. The 1> and >2 syntax is invalid for DOS..Win9x/Me...