The 1980's called and want me back...
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Just had to write a .DAT and a .BAT file! I will not embarrass myself by explaining why, just say that a lack of programming skill has been made evident by a small report I needed to have uploaded to a website each morning!
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Just had to write a .DAT and a .BAT file! I will not embarrass myself by explaining why, just say that a lack of programming skill has been made evident by a small report I needed to have uploaded to a website each morning!
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Just had to write a .DAT and a .BAT file! I will not embarrass myself by explaining why, just say that a lack of programming skill has been made evident by a small report I needed to have uploaded to a website each morning!
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
Nothing wrong with that; I write BAT files all the time. "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work."
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Just had to write a .DAT and a .BAT file! I will not embarrass myself by explaining why, just say that a lack of programming skill has been made evident by a small report I needed to have uploaded to a website each morning!
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
I'm shameless .bat user. In fact I just edited one of my script this morning. I have repetitive mundane work and I write a batch file to do the work for me. Some of the tasks I do with batch files - Compare my local source code against source control - Get/Refresh latest code from source code - Build projects and solutions - Compare a number of folders I regularly touch. - Check who is logged on to which shared servers The list goes on and on. It saves me a lot of time using .bat files instead of typing commands and/or clicking. :sigh:
Yusuf May I help you?
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I'm shameless .bat user. In fact I just edited one of my script this morning. I have repetitive mundane work and I write a batch file to do the work for me. Some of the tasks I do with batch files - Compare my local source code against source control - Get/Refresh latest code from source code - Build projects and solutions - Compare a number of folders I regularly touch. - Check who is logged on to which shared servers The list goes on and on. It saves me a lot of time using .bat files instead of typing commands and/or clicking. :sigh:
Yusuf May I help you?
You have made me happy! I am not a proper programmer like most here, I just do what I can to make my life easier. Fortunately on those occasions when I have run into a brick wall (ie found the circumference of ignorance as far as coding goes) I utilise the gestaltic mind of the CP community to help solve my problems. I also prefer to use the stuff I do know, such as opening a command shell and calling a BAT file because I am within my comfort zone with such venerable practises! :)
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Just had to write a .DAT and a .BAT file! I will not embarrass myself by explaining why, just say that a lack of programming skill has been made evident by a small report I needed to have uploaded to a website each morning!
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
i spent all day yesterday messing with the .BAT (and .vbs) files that run my build system. they're hideous, but they work!
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What I did, works.
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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What I did, works.
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Just had to write a .DAT and a .BAT file! I will not embarrass myself by explaining why, just say that a lack of programming skill has been made evident by a small report I needed to have uploaded to a website each morning!
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
Batch files? I still use them and though it sounds perverse, I rather like them.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Nothing wrong with that; I write BAT files all the time. "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work."
Same here, as:
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
"Do the simplest thing that could possibly work."
is what I go by as well for the most part.
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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Yes, but it is very crude and nasty.
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No, crude and nasty is booting from a DOS6 CD to edit the BAT file...and yes, I do have one in my folder :-O
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam
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Just had to write a .DAT and a .BAT file! I will not embarrass myself by explaining why, just say that a lack of programming skill has been made evident by a small report I needed to have uploaded to a website each morning!
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Just had to write a .DAT and a .BAT file! I will not embarrass myself by explaining why, just say that a lack of programming skill has been made evident by a small report I needed to have uploaded to a website each morning!
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
No need to over engineer if you don't have to. I bet it took you two minutes anyways.
Later, JoeSox CPMCv1.0 - Last.fm - MyFriendfeed - CPForAndroid++
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If you use the
.cmdextension rather than.batit makes it look as if you have moved forward a few years at least.Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Just had to write a .DAT and a .BAT file! I will not embarrass myself by explaining why, just say that a lack of programming skill has been made evident by a small report I needed to have uploaded to a website each morning!
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Just had to write a .DAT and a .BAT file! I will not embarrass myself by explaining why, just say that a lack of programming skill has been made evident by a small report I needed to have uploaded to a website each morning!
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Just had to write a .DAT and a .BAT file! I will not embarrass myself by explaining why, just say that a lack of programming skill has been made evident by a small report I needed to have uploaded to a website each morning!
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
I don't see any problem using something that has been tried and tested and we know works!
Apps - Color Analyzer | Arctic | XKCD | Sound Meter | Speed Dial
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If you use the
.cmdextension rather than.batit makes it look as if you have moved forward a few years at least.Veni, vidi, abiit domum
An old boss of mine - who was clueless when it came to IT even though he was "Director of IT" - had read how .BAT files were old technology, "a thing of the past", so instructed me to no longer make or support any .BAT files for any of our essential operations. I told him the change away from .BAT files would be a big job, and was about to point out what a waste of time it would be when he interrupted. He was adamant that he knew better than I what was needed and that I should just "get on with it as a top priority". He gave me three weeks to get it all done. This deadline was, of course, completely arbitrary as usual. I hadn't told him how long it would take and he hadn't asked. I had some sudden inspiration and agreed to the three week deadline but warned him that I would need to concentrate on just this task and nothing else, I was not be disturbed and I might just make it. He readily agreed since I normally fought him on his arbitrary deadlines and went away happy - he issued instructions to the rest of the staff that I was working on a vital change and was not to be disturbed... I spent a couple of hours going through all the .BAT files (about 100) and renaming them to .CMD files and testing them. Then I had three weeks of undisturbed peace and quiet to get caught up on a couple of other projects to which he had given equally unrealistic deadlines. I wished I had pushed for four or five weeks - he would probably have agreed to it!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Just had to write a .DAT and a .BAT file! I will not embarrass myself by explaining why, just say that a lack of programming skill has been made evident by a small report I needed to have uploaded to a website each morning!
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
