ee5391aa@triton.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax) (03/24/91)
In article <39585@netnews.upenn.edu> jrv@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (JR VanMechelen) writes: >Anybody have any really clever aliases? I dunno about "clever", but I find the following pretty useful: ..=cd .. ATT=attrib *.* CP=copy /b /v /r FILES=dir /f /q Very useful, with redirection, for getting the start- ing point of a batch file to process individually most or all files in a directory. Accepts arg.s. HD=attrib +h HiDe L=dir /pv4 LL=dir /p LLL=hdir hdir is a directory listing verb...& I never use it. LK=attrib +r LocK M=more PC version of UN*X more verb MCD=md %1^cd %1 Create a directory; make it the current directory. MV=move /r N=c >> \d\txt\notes These two make a quick & dirty notebook system. Use NN=m \d\txt\notes the sequence <^Z><LF> to end the entry mode. PO=popd PRNLONG=mode lpt1:,,p Sets the printer driver to wait forever. PU=pushd STR=strings %1|m Like UN*X "strings", but piped through "more". UHD=attrib -h UnHiDe ULK=attrib -r UnLocK ------ The "control" verb is a PC Magazine utility that sends the ASCII equi- valent of a (decimal) number to the system printer. The values ob- viosly will vary with the type of printer you have. EMPHON=control 27,69 Sets emphasized mode. MARPRINT=control 10,27,64,27,78,6 Assuming the printer is at the top of the form, this moves the paper up one line, resets the printer, then tells it to print sixty lines per page, skipping for a nice top-and-bottom margin. Works with Epson LQ-510. TOF=control 12 Sends printer to Top Of Form. ------ CIS=keystack "kermit" 13 "c" 13 "atd2558626" 13 Quick and effortless KK=keystack "kermit" 13 "c" 13 "atd2779992" 13 connection to the ------ remote systems. "m" is the alias for "more"; "c" is a "cat" type verb, actually renamed rather than aliased...I'd do that with "more", but some other programs look for "more", so it causes trouble. The three files are the regular ASCII set (0-127), tabulated in decimal, hexadecimal and octal. The "xascii" file is the same thing with the extended ASCII set (128-255). "box" contains a box-oriented display of the extended ASCII characters which the PC character set uses for making text-oriented boxes. In the event that some may find those three files useful, a uuencoded ZOO archive of the files ascii, box and xascii is appended. ASCII=m \lib\ascii Display tables of the standard ASCII character set. BOX=c \lib\box Display the extended ASCII characters used for boxes. XASCII=m \lib\xascii Display tables of the extended ASCII character set. ------ DNL=cd \d\dnl Several commonly-used directories are aliased like this. ------ This next runs a public-domain grep (Global Regular Expression Print) verb, ignoring case (-i), on a specific file. The argument is a string, and the output displays all lines which contain *<string>* . The file scanned is a club membership list, one total entry per line, so it's a quick, handy and dirty way to get info on a certain person or set of persons. (Match 'em by name, zip code, etc. It's NOT particular, however, and if you ask for "john", you get John, Johns, Longjohn, Johnson, Johnston, etc. INFO=grep -i %1 \d\cav\grotto\memlist.sgn ------ Running 4dos on top of messdos 3.3 as we do here at n5gax, we're still limited to 32 MB per logical disk drive. On a 40 MB drive, we had 8 MB logical drive that had to be used in some manner. We ended up using it as our executable directory, "join"ed to drive C: as \bin. "free" isn't smart enough to figure out the details, so this alias gives the actual amount free on each logical drive. It works properly if I'm in the \bin directory, but it makes a mess if I happen to be on drive A: or B:. Bulletproof it ain't. 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DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu (David Barr) (03/24/91)
Here's a few that I love to use: KILL=global /q del *.bak FIXD=global /q attrib -h descript.ion SETAL*IAS=alias /r c:\4dos30\aliases EDAL*IAS=vi c:\4dos30\aliases ATZ=echo atz>com1 .=exit BACK=set tempcwd=%_cwd:chdir %oldcwd:set oldcwd=%tempcwd:set tmpcwd CD=set oldcwd=%_cwd:*chdir %1 CALC=echo Answer=%@eval[%&] LESS=list /s ------ KILL and FIXD are great right before running Norton SD EDAL/SETAL are invaluable when perfecting aliases ATZ is handy for those frequent comm problems . is great for those used to Unix the CD/BACK combo is great all the time CALC was inspired by a VM Rexx program LESS is the best approximation to the Unix one I can't live without --Dave
stevek@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Steve Kite) (03/25/91)
While we are talking about 4Dos and aliases, what happened to the book that was suppose to come out about 4Dos??
bcc@Eyring.COM (Brian Cooper) (03/30/91)
In article <14010004@hp-ptp.HP.COM> stevek@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Steve Kite) writes: >While we are talking about 4Dos and aliases, what happened to the book >that was suppose to come out about 4Dos?? If you are If you mean Shareware Plus Featuring 4DOS, it is out. I just got a copy from the Library of Computer & Information Sciences. I haven't read very much, but it looks very interesting. It has a copy of the Shareware version of the software, but the price of the book doesn't include the shareware fee -- which seems a bit odd to me. One buys the book, tries out the software in the back, and if it is useful, sends in the registration to the shareware author. Doesn't the shareware author get anything from the sale of the book? Brian Cooper