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echo: nthelp
to: Frank Haber
from: Adam Flinton
date: 2004-02-12 07:25:52
subject: Re: DIR == Excel

From: Adam Flinton 

Frank Haber wrote:
>>Or he could just use the native Windows facilities.
>
>
> Like dir|sort /blah /blah, or do I need to be reminded of something?
>
> I probably should drag out the 4NT, but this is in the agony range.  It seems
> to be about 10-15,000 files, and this will have to be done 3-10 times.  If I
> know anything, it's that tweaking a script to do something for that few uses
> is non-productive.
>
> I think I remember more 4NT than I do grep + awk, even though the parser in
> 4NT is less dependable.  But this is Windows, after all.
>
> Did I say I was a fossil with a rotting brain, and that I don't have time for
> this?
>

Rock rots?

Blimey.

Adam

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