RE: Mass removal of Archive bits

["Myron Gochnauer" goch@xxxxxxxx]

Indeed. You must not be running Win2K on a Thinkpad. ;-) Crash, burn and
reinstall Win2K is as regular as the seasons... come to think of it, I've
done it so regularly that the BAT file could just become part of the
Win2Kstuff I automatically reload, update or run when I rebuild the system.

At a more serious level, I've taken to maintaining a directory
"C:\DriversEtAl" (regularly backed up) in which I keep the latest versions
of all the little utilities, batch file and tweaks I use, both as a memory
trigger ("What shell extensions do I use?") and an archive. I also keep a
text file there with all of my serial numbers.  I don't have a XyWrite
subdirectory there, though, since C:\xy4 is always the first thing I back
up, as is.

Sorry if I've been annoyingly obtuse in this thread, but it's March break
(aka Slack Week) here, and I have a dreadful, mindnumbing
cold/flu/cough-til-you-drop illness. When I'm feeling better and get a life
again I'll fall mercifully silent...

Myron

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Holmgren [mailto:holmgren@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 1:50 PM
To: Xywrite@Ccat. Sas. Upenn. Edu
Subject: Re: Mass removal of Archive bits


** Reply to message from "Myron Gochnauer"  on Wed, 3 Mar 2004
10:03:43 -0400


> I agree about the convenience of DOS, but only if DOS manipulation is your
> psychological default... Unfortunately, I now have to
> think "how do I do this?" at the DOS level except for common tasks.

Fortunately, you only have to run the BAT file ONCE against each drive, so
it's
not too burdensome. Now, let's see, how do I do this? I type the BATfile
name, and then hit Enter...

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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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