Re: Ignorant keyboard question

[Nathan Sivin nsivin@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks to Robert Holmgren for pointing out that my two commands
were still not usable. They should be:

BX del/nv C:\DOC\!YOURNAME.$$$ Q2 ;*;COMMENT
BX xcopy C:\DOC\!YOURNAME.BAK C:\DOC\!YOURNAME.$$$ Q2 ;*;COMMENT

The point is that !.$$$ is a dynamic file, which records
the full pathnames of the files you open. It will therefore add
names as you work; both those and the permanent list already in
it will be available. But when you start a new session, the
permanent list in !.BAK replaces it and you start over.

I do exactly the same thing with Netscape cookies. Cookies.bak
contains the permanent list of a few cookies I need in order to
log on to the New York Times and a couple of other sites. Every
day when I back up the day's work prior to shutting down, the
batch file that does the backing up also makes a copy of
cookies.bak that replaces the current cookies.txt and so gets rid
of the detritus picked up during the day.

Cheers,
--
Nathan Sivin
History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-6304
(215) 898-7454
nsivin@xxxxxxxx