Category : Batch File Utilities - mostly for DOS
Archive   : TSBAT12.ZIP
Filename : TSBAT.NWS

University of Vaasa, Finland, Sun 4, (chyde.uwasa.fi) has a
collection of PD and shareware PC programs. The file /pc/ts/0news
contains news about the TS-programs in the /pc/ts directory (in
reverse order). This file, which you now have, is an extract from
the 0news file.
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Prof. Timo Salmi
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: [email protected] Funet: vakk::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
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Sat 18-Nov-89: There are several nice memory resident push/pop
directory utilities around. As you know pushdir stores the name of
the directory where you are. You can then change the directory (and
the drive) as much as you like, and popdir takes you right back to
the original directory. But memory resident programs tend to pile
up, and I started thinking whether push/pop can be achieved using
non-resident batch methods. PUSHDIRE.BAT and POPDIRE.BAT together
with SETPUSHD.EXE do this by juggling the environment variables. I
pushed these files in my batch file collection and updated it to be
tsbat12.arc. You can pop them from there.

Tue 31-Oct-89: Released update /pc/ts/tsbat11.arc of my batch files
collection. The new release introduces LOGRUN.BAT. It can be used
for calling programs and logging the call in a usage log with
time/date information. The batch utilizes MsDos time and date
commands for making the usage log of the program calls. The bug
caused by the non-standard switch /i in the file finder WHERE.BAT
has been amended. A new batch LOCATE.BAT for locating a file (or
files) on a disk has been added. Contrary to WHERE.BAT it is not
case sensitive. The "change the directory" batch has been renamed
C.BAT (was SD.BAT). I have also added more comments within some of
the batches.
If you get an "Out of environment space" message in these, or any
other batches, try increasing your environment space by using shell
configuration in config.sys:
Example: shell=c:\bin\command.com c:\bin /e:1024 /p

Sun 29-Oct-89: I decided to introduce a batch file collection
/pc/ts/tsbat10.arc. The batches are quite straightforward, and do
not need any special auxiliary programs, just the ordinary MsDos
commands. Some of the batches are from my other utility packages,
some are new. I do not claim a high degree of originality. This is
because the methods and tasks of batch programming keep repeating
over and over again. But I hope that you will find some of my
tricks useful.
And if you feel that you have useful batches yourself, which you
would like to distribute to your fellow users, I would be interested
in considering any good ideas for development. Due credit would
naturally be given. I would, however, reserve the right to choose,
and to develop your batches to suit the future versions of this
Public Domain collection.

Thu 26-Oct-89: I have a private mailing list for emailing these
update news. Especially, if you have my programs downloadable at
your site or your BBS you are welcome to ask for inclusion on this
list by emailing to me at [email protected].