University of Vaasa, Finland, Linux Pentium, node number
193.166.120.5 (garbo.uwasa.fi) has a large collection of shareware,
freeware and public domain programs which are available by anonymous
ftp (file transfer program) and WWW (World Wide Web). This
information file ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news-ts contains news
about the programs in the /pc/ts directory (in reverse order).
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Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of news:comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at ftp:// & http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ archives 193.166.120.5
Department of Accounting and Business Finance ; University of Vaasa
mailto:ts@uwasa.fi <http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/> ; FIN-65101, Finland
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N e w s o f 2 0 0 1
Mon 5-Nov-2001: I have once again added new items to my consequently
updated
201725 Nov 5 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat70.zip
tsbat70.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi
118) How to put the content of text file into a variable?
119) How do I get the three oldest and latest files of a directory?
120) Hint: Displaying an ASCII (hex) value table
121) How to make %0 include the full path of the called batch file?
122) How can I test if a file is dated less than hour ago?
As usual, there are some more solutions to the already existing
items, as well. E.g. Changed the item
95) How can I test for a zero byte file?
to be
95) How can I test for a zero byte file? Or against a larger size?
Thu 25-Oct-2001: I have updated my batch tips collection to now be
197262 Oct 25 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat69.zip
tsbat69.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks
Added more solution versions to a considerable number of the old
items in the principal file 1BATFAQ.TXT "Assorted batch tricks and
tips". In some cases several. The size of the tips file has grown
nearly 30 kilobytes in this rendition. The additions are much due to
echon.exe, cut.exe, sed.exe, gawk.exe and fn.exe based new
solutions. But nothing previous has been withdrawn.
The item
99) Is it possible to echo without linefeed like the Unix echo -n?
gives the Turbo Pascal source code for the task. Included a compiled
ECHON.EXE into the updated package for those gentle readers who do
not have and do not wish to search the web for the TP compiler.
Added the reference only items
113) What is difference between MS-DOS and various Windows batches?
114) Is it possible to display comments from the config.sys file?
Added also the items
115) Can I split a single command over multiple lines in a batch?
116) How can I get yesterday's date into an environment variable?
117) How do I get the 3rd word from the 5th line of a text file?
Tue 23-Oct-2001: I have updated my WHATDATE.EXE "Date +- number of
days from now" to make it useful also for batch enhancement. The
result can now optionally (a new switch /e) be directed to an
environment variable whatdate_. It is included in the consequently
upgraded package
111711 Oct 23 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutlc26.zip
tsutlc26.zip Timo's 3rd utility set (dirf,dirinfo,doubles,hidden,split,...)
Sat 13-Oct-2001: I have updated my FN.EXE FuNction evaluator to make
it useful also for batch enhancement. The results of a calculation
can now optionally (a new switch /e) be directed to an environment
variable fn_. It is included in the consequently upgraded package
77497 Oct 13 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfunc17.zip
tsfunc17.zip Calculates, tabulates, and plots your functions, T.Salmi
A simple demo example of the new batch usage:
@echo off
set number_=145
echo number_=%number_%
fn /e %number_%+1 0 > nul
set number_=%fn_%
echo number_=%number_%
set number_=
Mon 1-Oct-2001: Wrote
CURSIZE.EXE Nonresident cursor size adjuster
to adjust the size of the cursor or turn it off. It is part part of
the hence updated
36284 Oct 1 13:17 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutlg12.zip
tsutlg12.zip Timo's 7th utility set (backgrnd,backdemo,cursize,samesize)
Sat 29-Sep-2001: Updated my
187202 Sep 29 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat68.zip
tsbat68.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi
Added the new items
110) Is it possible to delete lines by their line numbers only?
111) How can I tell what drive has been allocated by ramdrive.sys?
112) How can in insert a line in the middle of a file with a batch?
Inserted a GAWK based alternative solutions to the items
3) Is it possible to nest for loops in batch files?
39) How can I extract the file basename?
75) How can I rename all files sequentially in a directory?
93) How do I add +1 to a variable in a batch?
Added a SED based solution alternative to the item
38) Is it possible to echo the redirection symbol in a batch?
Added another solution alternative to
106) How do I get the last drive into an environment variable?
The file is from now also available also without the version number
as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsbat.zip for easier permanent
reference.
Mon 13-Aug-2001: I have made an update
479528 Aug 13 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgifs19.zip
tsgifs19.zip Timo's free collection of 967 GIF thumbnails for WWW
Alternatively: http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/gifst/gifst.html
Thu 8-Mar-2001: Updated my batch tips collection to now be
184193 Mar 8 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat67.zip
tsbat67.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi
Added a few alternative options and tricks to the old items and
prepared the new items
105) How can I determine if ANSI.SYS is loaded?
106) How do I get the last drive into an environment variable?
107) How can I calculate the number of lines in a file?
108) Is it possible to save and later restore the command history?
109) Is it possible to change just one line of a file with a batch?
Tue 13-Feb-2001: I have made an update
179852 Feb 13 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat66.zip
tsbat66.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi
I have added alternative solutions to a few of the old ones. Mostly
G(nu)AWK-based. I have also added the following new items
103) How do I find the largest numeric extension and add +1 to it?
104) How do I run the latest executable from the default directory?
Wed 24-Jan-2001: I have again updated my FAQ-like collection of
MS-DOS batch tips and trick. It now is
176964 Jan 24 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat65.zip
tsbat65.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi
Added
100) How can I detect the F1-F10 function keys in a batch?
101) How can I get the free size and total size of a drive?
102) How can I search for a string through a directory of files?
Also added alternative solutions to some of the old items.
Wed 24-Jan-2001: Run for cover, all you drowsy folks. I have
released on the scampering news:rec.humor readership an update
48746 Jan 24 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tspun22.zip
tspun22.zip Timo's nauseating groaners (a collection of puns).
:
All the best, Timo (aka Perfesser Pundit in news:rec.humor)
Wed 10-Jan-2001: Updated my FAQ-like MS-DOS batches tips collection
to be
172660 Jan 10 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat64.zip
tsbat64.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi
Added a QBASIC alternative to the items
59) How get today's date into a six-character environment variable?
63) How can I extract the drive letter from a full file path?
83) Y2K: My old BIOS gives a wrong year at boot. How can I fix it?
95) How can I test for a zero byte file?
Added the items
98) How to read a file's attributes into environment variables?
99) Is it possible to echo without linefeed like the Unix echo -n?
Tue 9-Jan-2001: The older news about the files in the /pc/ts directory
are available as
:
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news60.ts
The news announcements of 2000 about ts-programs, T.Salmi
:
and so on, backwards.