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batch file gives syntax errors
Name: sudha_ilu Date: November 30, 2005 at 18:34:26 Pacific OS: dos 5.0 CPU/Ram: 512
Comment:
can any one please help me out. The following batch works in all windows version, but says error in dos 5.0
@Echo OFF
for /f "tokens=1,2" %%u in ('date /t') do set d=%%v for /f "tokens=1" %%u in ('time /t') do set t=%%u if "%t:~1,1%"==":" set t=0%t% set timestr=%d:~6,4%%d:~3,2%%d:~0,2%%t:~0,2%%t:~3,2%
for /f "delims=" %%x in ('dir *.RAT /b ') do RENAME %%x %%x_%timestr%
Name: wizard-fred Date: November 30, 2005 at 21:12:53 Pacific
Reply:
There is no guarantee that the command interpreter is backwards compatible. Especially from the newer window's version. "Works in all Windows versions." Did you try Win 3.1?
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Response Number 2
Name: jboy Date: November 30, 2005 at 21:54:39 Pacific
Reply:
Is this really "DOS 5" or (more likely) Window XP/NT5??
Resist the temptation to close your request for help with semantically-null questions like “Can anyone help me?”
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Response Number 3
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: November 30, 2005 at 22:58:47 Pacific
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Most sommand interpreters are backward compatible.
Few, if any, are forward compatible.
The is no for /f in DOS 5.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2
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Response Number 4
Name: jboy Date: November 30, 2005 at 23:57:14 Pacific
Reply:
That was where I was going with that, sure
(or in other words: DOS5 my... foot)
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Response Number 5
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: December 1, 2005 at 00:04:11 Pacific
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" works in all windows version"
I would be very surprised, maybe even flabbergasted, if that worked in w9x.
And I'll bet my little finger it won't work in w3x.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2
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Response Number 6
Name: plainandsimple Date: December 1, 2005 at 00:04:14 Pacific
Reply:
Do NT users really think we are that stupid not to release that never ever is it MS-DOS ?
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Response Number 7
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: December 1, 2005 at 00:07:02 Pacific
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Maybe 'all windows versions' has taken on new meaning.
Maybe it now means XP home and XP pro.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2
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Response Number 8
Name: jboy Date: December 1, 2005 at 02:36:45 Pacific
Reply:
It is a sorry state of affairs: an entire generation of would be batchers who've likely never encountered an actual DOS prompt.
For the record - - Windows versions are not DOS versions (4, 5... whatever)
Resist the temptation to close your request for help with semantically-null questions like “Can anyone help me?”
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