Tue 19-Apr-2005: I have made an update of my MS-DS batch FAQ
collection. Since I no longer have an MS-DS PC available, all the
new testing has been done on a Windows95 PC. This dos not, however,
imply that the collection has changed its, in some cases limited
MS-DS specific nature.
254761 Nov 11 2005
tsbat82.zip Useful MS-DS batch files and tricks, T.Salmi
The collection includes a number of References/Comments using
Google links. Google's system has changed, so some of the old
notation no longer worked. The syntax has been seen to.
Added a directory history capability to "C.BAT Lazy changing of
directory".
Added to the 1BATFAQ.TXT FAQ file
166) How do I uppercase all the filenames in a directory?
167) How can I create a one byte file? Not two, one.
All the best, Timo

Clay Calvert <ccalvert@Wanguru.comwrote:
Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:27:01 +0200, ts@UWasa.Fi (Timo Salmi) wrote:
>Tue 19-Apr-2005: I have made an update of my MS-DS batch FAQ
>collection. Since I no longer have an MS-DS PC available, all the
>new testing has been done on a Windows95 PC. This dos not, however,

Timo:
VmWare recently released a free 'player'. VmWare is now using the

I'm quite sure you have a license for MS-DS 6.22, if not then please
correct me.

Yes, Clay, I indeed do. Looking a my bookshelf I seem to have more
than one original set of MS-DS 6.22 and earlier disks. I also have
a very old Dell laptop with MS-DS 5.0, which I have not scrapped. I
haven't, however, used it for, must be at least two or three years
now. (MS-DS 5.0 is not a bad version at all, unlike the sorry 4.0,
or the a bit too limited 3.3)

If you'd like, I will set up a VM for you so that you could
continue to use DS.

Thanks for the nice offer. I think I'll pass, though, at least for
the time being. The reason simply is that my interest in the old
MS-DS a personal tool is steeply on the wane. And the batch FAQ
collection is already at quite a "mature" state. Most of the
motivation of my FAQ writing comes from the tasks I continue to use
and need myself. Hence my emphasis now is on XP. I just happened to
have some loose ends I wanted to tie in tsbat82, and to rectify the
altered Google referencing.

P.S. I am redirecting to alt.msdos.batch. The automated upload
script set comp.archives.msdos.d but my followup is
alt.msdos.specific.

All the best, Timo

JRS: In article <ts20051111072701.5375@vilkku.uwasa.fi>, dated Fri, 11
Nov 2005 07:27:01, seen in news:alt.msdos.batch, Timo Salmi
<ts@UWasa.Fiposted :
167) How can I create a one byte file? Not two, one.
ISTM that a DEBUG script will do that, avoiding imports.