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- From: skhan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Shahab Raza Khan)
- Subject: Re: Batch files
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.180312.15378@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.msdos.programmer
- Keywords: starfish and coffee...
- Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
- References: <1993Jan24.135115.10741@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <1993Jan25.134613.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <1993Jan25.152249.8789@udel.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:03:12 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- In article <1993Jan25.152249.8789@udel.edu> darkstar@pecan.cns.udel.edu (The Janitor Of Anarchy) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.134613.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> Nick FitzGerald <n.fitzgerald@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan24.135115.10741@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>, skhan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
- >>(Shahab Raza Khan) writes:
- >>
- >>> I have an interesting question. I want to write a batch file
- >>> which would do the following:
- >>>
- >>> 1. Down load our backup software from one of our LANs. The
- >>> software is not in compressed form but regular files.
- >>> 2. Edit the autoexec.bat file to login to separate accounts on
- >>> the LAN (e.g. user1, user2 etc)
- >>> 3. edit the config.tel file (for use with telnet) and change the
- >>> IP number in it (e.g. 129.174.1.1 129.174.1.2 etc)
- >>
- >>I have followed up in News rather than mailing as requested, as this may
- >>be of more general interest.
- >>
- >>Believe it or not, EDLIN (that most ghastly of DOS "utilities") may be
- >>the answer to your problem. Its (sole ?) virtue lies in the fact that
- >>it reads from stdin, so can be driven by a script file.
- >>
- >>I've never used it in this manner (I've never used full stop, he adds
- >>proudly 8-) ), but have seen some fiendishly clever batches in PC Mag
- >>based (in part) on this.
- >
- >Can anyone please post an example of how to do this? Thanks in
- >advance...
- >
-
- The way i wanted to do this is invoke tha batch file whti a
- value eg. download 15.
-
- Not 15 would be the value for the IP address and LAN account.
- but the problem os that i cannot put it in the config.tel file.
-
- The way to direct it from stdin is easy just type
- edlin filename < file2
-
- where file2 would be all the commands for edlin.
-
- --
- Shahab Raza Khan George Mason University
- skhan@gmuvax.bitnet Dept. of Computer Science
- skhan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu Fairfax, Virginia
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