Re: what's III+ suffixes for use in organizing program

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≪ Do Xywrite III plus files have any file extension suffixes
we can't see? All I see , in most cases, is the name of the
file, say , LANZA, but no suffixes. Are there any? ≫ --Art


Hi, Art. Just about the only things xyWrite 3 hides from you
are the end-of-file character that makes an empty file you
created in xyW 1 char long instead of 0, and anything in
a file past the eof char.

≪ How do I create quickly suffixes for hundreds of Xywrite
files? ≫

Assuming that by "suffix" you mean 3-char dos file name
extensions, consider the xyW3 function EN xpl program
named #EN, at the url in my sig.

#EN loops through any subdirectory you designate and quickly
does just about anything you can think of to all files that
fit a wildcard type. The catch is that usually you must write
a procedure to #EN that does whatever you want done. But I
just added a proc to #EN to make it easy for you. It appends
the extension "x3" to any file name that *now has no extension*
in the designated subdir, since you indicate that most files
you want Enfish to recognize have none--e.g., LANZA.

Usage for your purposes, after you unzip #EN to your xyW
subdir: clear the command line, type, and execute

	run #en c:\subdir\* +x3

You *must* designate a subdir (above called "c:\subdir"),
the designation *must* include at least one "*" wildcard char,
(above "c:\subdir\*"), and you *must* tell #EN what you want
it to do (in this case, "+x3" = "add x3" extension to all
present 8-char-or-less names in the subdir), so LANZA
becomes LANZA.X3. ...

At the url, click on "xyWrite/PostScript." Look for the
"A few freestanding xyW3 utilities that don't need !xyWise"
link, then look for the #EN link. Hope this helps. ... Ciao.	--a

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