JEAN PARROT wrote to JAMES BRADLEY, "Batch file" on 07-05-05 08:42

 JP>          Hello James, I wish you a nice day!

...As to you!

 JB> a batch file programer!

 JP>         Great. Does this give me bragging rights ?  I would have

Yup!

 JP>   to be in DOS for sure and this is where I am totally lost.
 JP>   Whenever I need to DOS something, I have to sit down and read
 JP>   DOS for Dummies over and over. You get the idea ? Not really for
 JP>   me. I love GUI.  CLIs are my demise.

And rightfully so, the batch file is just a way to offload the
 teadium. The BBS you log into, is likely run by a bunch of batch
 files. Once you can follow their flow and decision making, it can be
 very simple to understand.

I know you aren't interested in being a terminal jockey, I was just
 hoping to show how simple it can be. Believe me, if an idiot like
 myself can toy around with it, a *cat* should be able to too. 
 With the plug-and-go GUI, there is little need to understand it, but
 I still run BW from a batch file, just to take care of the messy bits
 of changing my location on the hard drive, and if I'm at the CLI, I
 just type "bw " and I'm in business.

Sorry if I talked your ear off.


... James
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