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- Subject: Re: Batch files
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.102845.10144@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 10:28:45 -0600
- References: <1993Jan24.135115.10741@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <1993Jan25.134613.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- In article <1993Jan25.134613.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>, cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, PC Software Consultant, CSC, UoC, NZ) writes:
- > 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.
-
- I have. If an expository is generally desired, I'll post. Let me know.
-
- --jim
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