Re: jaws topic?
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:16:36 -0700
All you're doing is describing variants of the process. Not that you're
wrong, it's just that there are all sorts of rename commands you could give,
depending upon which part or parts of the file name or file names, plural,
you wanted to change. so the below isn't quite a correction of what I
described, so much as an example of various ways to designate different
changes in different positions within the file name.
But, in any case, it was a nice, powerful command, and as we're all
agreeing, a damn shame that MS didn't figure out a way to translate to
Windows in some way. I'm no programmer, but I'd guess it could be done, if
someone had wanted to bother.
Ah, well. At least Bill and Melinda are making a dent in world health
problems, and that's nice. If irrelevant in this context... :-)
dm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Verity" <rtverity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: jaws topic?
If I may further clarify the DOS REN command
Syntax
REN FROM*.* TO*.*
Note the *, star, in the from and to names. Whatever value you used for
"FROM" followed by anything would be changed to "TO" followed by the same
thing. In the above syntax all filetypes would be renamed but by specifying
a filetype in the from file name only those files would be renamed and their
filetype would be preserved.
RTV
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Homuth" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: jaws topic?
Ah, right. I just used the move command for it... same thing when it
was all said and done. Unfortunately, though, the general consensus
that the same functionality isn't present in Windows is accurate.
Point and click means you're removing specific words from files one
file at a time, unfortunately. You can thank Microsoft for this long
awaited waste of time.
James,
List Admin
At 11:26 AM 9/25/2006, you wrote:
>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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