    YOU'RE IN FOR IT NOW! WE'RE GOING TO GO "BATCHING" AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE IT
    WILL START GETTING CLEARER! LET'S START WITH SOME EASY ONES THEN..."MOVE"!

           The following command is a candidate for a batch file
           because it requires so much typing. You could call it
           DIRDATE.BAT because it sorts the directory listing on
           the date column using the SORT command (See SORT.HLP)
           & sends the listing to the printer(a file also works).
   
                 >COPYCON: DIRDATE.BAT
                           DIR 1 SORT/+33>PRN
                           CTRL Z <RET>
           In this example, you are on the verge of actually pro-
           gramming the computer. DOS batch-file processing isn't
           considered a programming language>>(we disagree)<< but
           you can see the power that is available when you using
           batch-file subcommands to automate keystrokes.

           Another similar file is NONCOM.BAT; it will display a
           directory listing (& reports vol.)of files NOT ending
           with extension .COM: (it's a simple two-liner)
               >COPY CON:NONCOM.BAT
                 DIR | FIND/V"COM"  (now <F6> or Ctrl Z)
