X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f X-Recipient: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: "Mike Tripp" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: expand.exe Message-ID: Date: Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 07:48:24 -500 X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.29) In-Reply-To: X-Fido-From: Mike Tripp, 1:382/61 X-Fido-To: Kevin Klement 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: 98443508.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 [6] at 12:21:10 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 Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Originally to: Kevin Klement Hello Kevin! 27 Oct 09 15:32, Kevin Klement wrote to mark lewis: >> for %%i in (*.??_) do echo %%i KK> It decompresses the file in question, but then you have to enter the KK> new file name. KK> IE: KK> It decompresses "mem.ex_" but then you have to type in the new name KK> "mem.exe" You need a fancier command processor or batch util to split fully qualified names into their component parts for this exercise...and without a bootable version of the DOS available yet, it isnt' the best time to identify and learn them. When I crossed this bridge in the day, I redirected "DIR *.??_" to a text file and used QEdit to duplicate the filename list, insert "EXPAND" at the beginning, and modify the extension for the target filename to make a BAT. Older and wiser now, there are slicker and sleeker ways to generate a one-liner...but they'd still take longer to explain/nab utility/drop utility into a usable location than the low-tech manual hack. Hopefully this is an academic exercise, or are you still trying to get your installation working? .\\ike