bat files

EpiphoneSpecial · 2003-03-26 21:18:04

a ? about .bat files!!! i want a .bat file that will copy the the location of other files from a .txt and then copy those files to say the a: drive. the .txt will have 'C;\winnt\myfile1.txt' 'C;\winnt\myfile2.txt' it reads the txt and then copies those two files to a different location that i specify. cheers

26-03-2003 09:18PM

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EpiphoneSpecial

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a ? about .bat files!!!
i want a .bat file that will copy the the location of other files from a .txt and then copy those files to say the a: drive.

the .txt will have 'C;\winnt\myfile1.txt'
'C;\winnt\myfile2.txt'

it reads the txt and then copies those two files to a different location that i specify.

cheers

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#2 27-03-2003 02:34PM

Krusty_Clown

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It can be done, but it's tricky...
you'd be better off doing it with an extension of Dos (e.g. 4NT), Perl, or some Unix variant(e.g. MKS toolkit)..

It would be alot more straightforward..

In fact it would be alot easier to create a small VB application..

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