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- From: darkstar@pecan.cns.udel.edu (The Janitor Of Anarchy)
- Subject: Re: Batch files
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.152249.8789@udel.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan24.135115.10741@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <1993Jan25.134613.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:22:49 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In article <1993Jan25.134613.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> Nick FitzGerald <n.fitzgerald@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
- >In article <1993Jan24.135115.10741@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>, skhan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
- >(Shahab Raza Khan) writes:
- >
- >> I have an interesting question. I want to write a batch file
- >> which would do the following:
- >>
- >> 1. Down load our backup software from one of our LANs. The
- >> software is not in compressed form but regular files.
- >> 2. Edit the autoexec.bat file to login to separate accounts on
- >> the LAN (e.g. user1, user2 etc)
- >> 3. edit the config.tel file (for use with telnet) and change the
- >> IP number in it (e.g. 129.174.1.1 129.174.1.2 etc)
- >>
- >> I have a pretty good idea of how to do the downloading would
- >> work. There are about 50 computers which have to be configured
- >> with the above procedure. So far we have used manual ways to do
- >> this. If anyone has a nice way of doing this please let me
- >> know.
- >
- >I have followed up in News rather than mailing as requested, as this may
- >be of more general interest.
- >
- >Believe it or not, EDLIN (that most ghastly of DOS "utilities") may be
- >the answer to your problem. Its (sole ?) virtue lies in the fact that
- >it reads from stdin, so can be driven by a script file.
- >
- >I've never used it in this manner (I've never used full stop, he adds
- >proudly 8-) ), but have seen some fiendishly clever batches in PC Mag
- >based (in part) on this.
-
- Can anyone please post an example of how to do this? Thanks in
- advance...
-
- --Jerry
-
-
-
- --
-
- Jerry Alexandratos | "...I love the smell of
- darkstar@freezer.cns.udel.edu | vinyl in the morning..."
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