[DECtalk] I NEED A BIG FAVOR!

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,
Got the program, thanks.  If there's enough interest I'll put it up
somewhere on the site.
Jayson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 2:55 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] I NEED A BIG FAVOR!


> Hi, what do you mean by wildcards?  Do you mean in the filenames or
> the search and replace strings?  My change program handles wildcards
> in filenames just fine.  I can do *.txt etc.  It doesn't handle
> wildcards in strings though.  I can't do "d*g" and have it match dig,
> dog, etc.  Also you know Linux has this ability.  You would want
> probably awk or sed.  I can't help with using them but I know they do
> that.  Anyway, it's probably easier for me to attach mine.  It's a
> bit old and doesn't support long filenames but still works fine.  It
> just uses the shortened Windows 8.3 names instead.  I'm not sure
> where to download it since I don't think it is maintained.  It's
> simply called Change so would be hard to find.  You could try
> ftp://ftp.simtel.net/ but no guarantees.  It's probably better if I
> attach or upload it.  Actually you have ftp upload set up now so I'll
> probably just do that.  It's changXXX.zip, the X's being a year and
> month.  I hope I still have it.
>
> At 12:22 AM 2/26/2006, you wrote:
> >What's your search and replace program?  I have one from Hot Dots which I
> >sent Snoopi.  When he realized it wouldn't handle wildcards and thus
would
> >only do one file at a time I concocted a system of two batch files to
> >effectively give it wildcard ability.  Haven't heard back from him since.
> >I'd be interested in looking at yours.
> >Jayson.
>
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