X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f X-Recipient: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: "bob klahn" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: expand.exe Message-ID: Date: Monday, 26 Oct 2009 14:30:00 -0500 X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.29) X-Fido-From: bob klahn, 1:124/311 X-Fido-To: John Guillory MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Declude-Sender: ccoky AT iglou DOT com [67.131.57.16] X-Declude-Spoolname: 98443515.eml X-Declude-RefID: X-Note: Please send abuse reports to abuse AT fewpb DOT net X-Declude-Note: Scanned by Declude 4.4.0 "http://www.declude.com/x-note.htm" X-Declude-Scan: Outgoing Score [9] at 12:21:16 on 02 Jan 2010 X-Declude-Tests: BADHEADERS [8], DYNHELO [2] X-Country-Chain: UNITED STATES->destination X-Declude-Code: 8010000e X-Declude-Recipcount: 1 Organization: The Electric and Water Plant Board of the City of Frankfort Kentucky X-Identity: 67.131.57.16 | | delorie.com Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Originally to: John Guillory JG> Re: expand.exe JG> By: Kevin Klement to All on Sun Oct 11 2009 01:14 pm >> Any tips how to expand.exe a "set" of file{s) in MS-DOS 6.22? JG> I believe I used to copy them all to c:\dos and then use: JG> expand *.* JG> or something like: JG> for %%i in (*.??_) do expand %%i JG> Then del *.??_ JG> if you have any files that end in a _ and the extension JG> isn't 3 characters, expand them too That sounds about right. And I wish I had remembered that. I just did some of that expansion last night, but I used Ztree, and made a batch file with it's batch file function. It worked, but your way would have been a lot simpler. It's been a long time since I did that sort of thing. Probably going to have to get back into it. BOB KLAHN bob DOT klahn AT sev DOT org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn ... Any day you find yourself looking down at the grass is gonna be a good day. * Silver Xpress V4.5/P [Reg]