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ND.DOC
Version 1.0
Copyright 1989 by Gordon Haff. All Rights Reserved.
[Various legal stuff deleted. Just read any other software read_me
file and you get the general gist of what's been deleted here. The
bottom line is that if you get so excited using this program that you
knock your computer off your desk and it lands on your foot, it's not my
fault.]
ND is 'Freeware'. I don't ask anything for it since it only took me an
evening or so to cook up. If you love it so much that you feel you
just have to do something for me, feel free to check out my shareware
such as Directory Freedom (a nice, small, fast directory manager) or
'the last word' (a fiendishly difficult quotations trivia game).
There's really not much to using ND. It's a DOS command line utility
with the following syntax:
ND filename.ext
Only one filename is accepted on the command line but wildcards are
allowed.
What ND does is rename filename.ext to the current date. No, this
is NOT yet another touch utility -- it doesn't do anything to the
file's date and time stamp. It changes the NAME.
In other words, if the current date were 11-08-91, filename.ext would
be renamed to 910811.ext. If there were already a file by that name,
filename.ext would be renamed to 910811A.ext (and so on until we run
out of letters at which time ND will abort with an error).
What good is this? Personally I use it in a batch file to rename
message packets from bulletin boards when I archive them. No doubt,
others have come up with other uses for this program as well.