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Thread ID: 33230	2003-05-11 09:45:00	batchfile renaming	mejobloggs (264)	Press F1

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143177	2003-05-12 05:05:00	yeah, thanks. If i had to list all the files, i might as well change them. Probably quicker too. Thanks	mejobloggs (264)
143178	2003-05-12 06:02:00	I would experiment with DOS. :D If they are called things like ... "f124.dat"," f125.dat", etc, I would try first ren *.dat *joe.dat. If that didn't work, I would try (first making a directory --- md newnames ) then xcopy *.dat newnames\*joe.dat. I think one of those would work. I have done lots of things like that over the years ... it just needs a bit of experimentation. There is a lot of cleverness hidden in DOS, much of which is not actually documented.	Graham L (2)
143179	2003-05-12 07:16:00	DOS would be fine if it could handle long file names but I think you will get the " too many parameters " message with the last mentioned method	Al.W (797)
143180	2003-05-12 10:23:00	Great. I used Rename4U and told it to replace ever '2k' it found with 'joe' Wonderful. Saved me a lot of time. Thanks a lot.	mejobloggs (264)
143181	2003-05-13 06:24:00	Al.W : Try the "quote fnames" which contain spaces trick. :D (just the part which contains the DOS-illegal spaces).	Graham L (2)
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