RE: jaws topic?
- From: "David Weddle" <ddweddle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:58:28 -0700
Yes, Yardbird is right and he provided the correct syntax for renaming
files in DOS. However, one key point comes to mind. Although in DOS it
was easy to change file names, DOS had no way to change the name of
directories
(now called folders). That's a nice feature included in Windows, i.e.,
the ability to change folder names.
Regarding changing file names using wildcard characters, has anyone
tried using the old DOS command format in the Run dialog box to
accomplish this? Many of the old DOS commands with DOS file
specifications work just fine there. I've never had any occasion to try
it myself.
Take care...
Dave Weddle
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Yardbird
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 8:27 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: jaws topic?
Jimes,
My memory just came back to me. First of all, "move" was just what it
sounds like. move file x from directory a to directory b. Sorry, but
that's what move meant,
and DOS did, in fact, have a rename command, and this was what you used.
you typed it ren, and the syntax was ren myfile.doc yourfile.doc. Jaws
aside, that said "my file, and "your file," run together as you had to
do in
the DOS filenames.
I forgot what the original inquirier wants to do that's slightly
different;
I think he or she wants to simply remove a common first word in a
folder's
worth of filenames, so that the names now begin with what has been the
second word. Something like that. anyway, the one variant that would
have
been involved in the DOS action would be the * or wild card, so that
whatever the first word was, you could change it or make it disappear.
nywya,eaving filenmameOr, as in this case, ren myfile.doc
Whew. Long time. But trust me, that's how it was done.
Now, does any windows wizard know if there's any equivalent mass
renaming
command in Windows?aht
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Homuth" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: jaws topic?
Close. It was actually the move command, I believe. Since DOS didn't
have a rename command per say, so it escentially just copied the
file(s) in question to the new name, then deleted the old one(s).
Unfortunately, there is no way to do that in indows, at least not with
the point and click interface. If you wanted to experiment with the
Windows XP command line, though, that same command would work there, and
JFW plays nice with that. Nicer still if you tweek the settings a
little.
James,
List Admin
At 10:48 PM 9/24/2006, you wrote:
>Judith,
>I think he knows this. What he's asking is, isn't there a similar way
>to change a common element in a whole lot of *file names*? No, there
>isn't, not in Windows. But in DOS, the operating system that ran most
>PCs before Windows, you could do this with a command you typed at the
>command line, which was the main thing that appeared on your screen,
>all alone, if no program was running.
>
>I forgot the exact syntax that would be used for something like this,
>but I sort of remember it like this. Let's say you have ten files
>whose names begin with grossinger. Like, grossinger01.doc,
>grossinger02.doc, and so forth. You'd like to change them all to say
>hotel01.doc, hotel02.doc, and so forth.
>
>So, on the command line, which would show exactly which directory
>(folder) you were at, you'd type:
>
>change grossinger*.doc hotel*.doc
>
>and hit enter. whereupon every file in that directory (folder) whose
>filename began with "grossinger" would now begin, instead, with the
>worth "hotel," Even if there were a hundred such files.
>
>anyway, that was the good old days, in this regard. If there's some
>way to perform mass changes like this in Windows, I haven't heard about
>it.
>
>
>change c:\my documents\grossinger----- Original Message -----
>From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 7:22 PM
>Subject: Re: jaws topic?
>
>
>Inside word you can use this function to adapt your list the way you
>want it. Let's say that the word you are lookintg to eliminate is
"alto". In
>the first box in the control H function you would type "alto". In
the
>next box you would type four spaces, tab to change all and hit enter.
>The change would take place and the word alto would be eoliminated from
>the first part of the entry on each line. Judith
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert Smith" <rrrsmith@xxxxxxx>
>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 11:25 PM
>Subject: Re: jaws topic?
>
>
> >
> > Yardbird,
> >
> > The control H seems to work inside most any file I have tried it,
> > namely note pad, and word pad. Where I would like it to work is on
> > a list. I have a folder in "my documents" which contains nearly 100
> > files the title of each begins with the same word. It is the second
> > word that distinguishes them from each other. I had hoped that
> > while on the list I
> > could use that command to eliminate the first word and replace it
with
> > nothing so that the second word would be the identifying one. Hope
this
> > hasn't been too confusing.
> >
> > Bob S.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:21 PM
> > Subject: Re: jaws topic?
> >
> >
> >> Which application are you working in when you use this command?
> >> The
> >> only
> >> context I know for this command is MS Word. And I've used Word for
a
> >> long
> >> time, before I needed Jaws, and that command has always been part
of
> >> Word,
> >> allied with the Control F find function.
> >> .
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Robert Smith" <rrrsmith@xxxxxxx>
> >> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:17 PM
> >> Subject: jaws topic?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Is control H, the find and replace command a jaws function? If not
> >> I'll
> >> take my question to another list.
> >>
> >> Bob S.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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