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!
--------------------------------- 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.
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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.
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Nothing wrong with that; I write BAT files all the time. "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work."
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I use them a lot Dave, they are old and simple and they work ( just like me )
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
You may be old and you may work, however, the evidence here on CP suggests that you are not simple. Your signature suggests that you would never use a bat file. Still, with appropriate chemical aids, you are probably capable of anything you desire. ....and yeah I use them to. It's a KISS thing I guess.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Quote:
The 1980's called and want me back
If you are asking for permission, then yes, I will allow it. :)
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
1980's? You mean building basic programmes on Commodore Pets, women and flying? And more flying? Because it was a requirement to learn FLYING at Cranfield in those days? Count me in. Maybe more big-haired women this time though. Do You Want To Be A Hero? :)
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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 would use a stone axe if it fits the purpose! Nothing wrong with .BAT (we all love BATman)! :)
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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.
That's nuttin' Last year, I installed an old 5 1/4" disk drive, so that I could read a file off a 25 year old floppy.
Truth, James
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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.
Don't deprecate your work. I use more or less daily a .dat file to copy .dll files after compiling my programs in VB.Net 2003. I'm proud that I could make the file because it avoids a lot of manual copy file work and frustrations when I forgot copying the files before start testing my changes.
Kind regards, Dirk
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That's nuttin' Last year, I installed an old 5 1/4" disk drive, so that I could read a file off a 25 year old floppy.
Truth, James
Not quite as old as a 5 1/4, but I did dig out a zip drive to see if there was anything useful on a collection of old backups that I found lurking in the depths of the garage. Very painful process trying to get it to work with a win 7 machine so I ended up grabbing an old win 2k machine that was also lurking in the garage - all just to check on old data.
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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.
ActiveState Perl is what I use for that sort of thing. At least a perl script can do more stuff. If it gets long enough move it to php or java. If it still doesn't perform, c++. But use whatever language ya know that'll work. The language is less important than having something that's DONE.
