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Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS) was an operating system for x86-based personal computers, and traces of it are still found in the Windows ...

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Batch file script to zip individual files from winrar

byYashwant Vishwakarma
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Introduction:
Recently, I got a requirement to zip all files individually with batch file …
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Running Out of Drive Letters?

byJoe Winograd
Bellevue, WA, USA; Late December, 1980

"OK, folks, we nailed the IBM …
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Software Installation Remotely {through Script}

byMuhammad Farjad Arshad
Being a system administrator some time we require to do things remotely, one of them is installing …
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Advanced Batch File Programming: YESTERDAY.BAT

byPaul Tomasi
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YESTERDAY

YESTERDAY.BAT is inspired by a previous article I wrote entitled: TOMORROW.BAT…
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Advanced Batch File Programming: Validating Dates

byPaul Tomasi
VALIDATING DATES

One method of validating dates is to jam the date into the DATE command …
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Advanced Batch File Programming: TOMORROW.BAT

byPaul Tomasi
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TOMORROW

TOMORROW.BAT is inspired by a question I get asked over and over again; that is, "…
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DOS: ECHO text to previous line - by Paul Tomasi

byt0t0
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One of my most closely kept secrets is revealed in this discussion

How to output text on the …
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Using dates in batch files / scripts

bySteve Knight
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See my pages here: http://scripts.dragon-it.co.uk/ for more batch, VBScript, HTA etc.


Using dates

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Mouse Trap

Advanced DOS batch pitfalls

byQlemo
14
The following is a collection of cases for strange behaviour when using advanced techniques …

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