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    From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to All on Wed Sep 7 10:28:00 2011

    Does anyone have any pointers to good DOS batch file references?

    My father is cleaning out his den, and I'm looking for two books I loaned
    him - Running MS-DOS and Supercharging MS-DOS by Van Wolverton, two
    wonderful references I swore by over the years.

    I'd like to find some online references, save me lugging books around.

    I thought I was done with batch files years ago, but a need for batch programming keeps popping up, and batch does the trick in most cases.



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  • From Richard Webb@1:116/901 to Kurt Weiske on Wed Sep 7 19:07:07 2011
    HI Kurt,

    On Wed 2011-Sep-07 10:28, Kurt Weiske (1:218/700) wrote to All:

    Does anyone have any pointers to good DOS batch file references?

    This one was fair last time I checked

    http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/Websites.html

    Timo Salmi, a professor in FInland has done quite a bit on
    this one:

    http://garbo.uwasa.fi/

    I thought I was done with batch files years ago, but a need for
    batch programming keeps popping up, and batch does the trick in most
    cases.

    True, but post your queries here as well. There are at
    least a few of us here who are serious bat nuts, and wring
    quite a bit of performance out of .bat scripting with some
    great enhancements, many of which can be found in the bfds.


    Regards,
    Richard
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