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- 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)