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    From Jay Allshire@1:120/302 to All on Wed Mar 9 13:12:29 2016
    Hello All,

    I am trying to find a way wiht a batch file to select a random file from a given list of files (example: welcome.1 welcome.2 welcome.3 welcome.4 etc) and have it choose one and then rename it to a given file name everytime (example welcome.clr) I am trying to make this so it will ramdomly rotate welcome screens for a old bbs program that I am running. If this is possible it would be great if someone could help me make this work.


    Thanks in advance..
    Jay
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  • From Ben Ritchey@1:393/68 to Jay Allshire on Wed Mar 9 13:48:09 2016
    * An ongoing debate between Jay Allshire and All rages on ...

    I am trying to find a way wiht a batch file to select a random file
    from a given list of files (example: welcome.1 welcome.2 welcome.3 welcome.4 etc) and have it choose one and then rename it to a given
    file name everytime (example welcome.clr) I am trying to make this so
    it will ramdomly rotate welcome screens for a old bbs program that I
    am running. If this is possible it would be great if someone could
    help me make this work.

    I use Random Copier:

    Rem Rc.Exe at http://www.homepages.ihug.com.au/~babfive/quentisl/rc.html
    Rem Random Copy archived as RNDCPY14.ZIP (58kB)

    http://cmech.dynip.com/filebase.bbs/dl/dfut/rndcpy14.zip

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  • From Jay Allshire@1:120/302 to Ben Ritchey on Wed Mar 9 16:06:30 2016
    Re: Re: Random select file and rename
    By: Ben Ritchey to Jay Allshire on Wed Mar 09 2016 01:48 pm

    I use Random Copier:


    Thanks for the info on this Ben. I will check this out as it sounds like the answer to what I am looking for.


    Jay
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