Admiral Wilson -> All wrote:
 AW> How do I rename a file to something like todays date, 06272007.log inside a
 AW> batch file?  I wish to archive my bbs logs into the file area with vupload.

 AW> Thanks

Well it seems I have the most complicated way?
I run this batch to creat date flag files and/or set envars.
the .com files are real small
And I found them in a batfile helper file area.
I thought they were at http://vtdl.net/share/ac_admin
they werent but now are there.
I've ru this for years and tweeked and tweeked to the
way I like 
Caution this bat writes its files to the current dir
and also deletes the current versions that exists in the dir.


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@echo off
rem  38.bat
rem call 38.bat nofiles to set envars only
rem called from other bats to use envars (date dow dom moy month year)
rem also run once a day to write files for if exist checks.
set path=%path%;c:\util
:dow
dow
for %%f in (0 1 2 3 4 5 6) do if errorlevel %%f set dow=%%f
if (%1)==(nofiles) goto dom
del *.dow
echo %dow%>%dow%.dow
:dom
dom
for %%f in (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31) do if errorlevel %%f set dom=%%f
if (%1)==(nofiles) goto moy
del *.dom
echo %dom%>%dom%.dom
:moy
moy
for %%f in (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12) do if errorlevel %%f set moy=%%f
if (%moy%)==(1) set month=jan
if (%moy%)==(1) set mont=01
if (%moy%)==(2) set month=feb
if (%moy%)==(2) set mont=02
if (%moy%)==(3) set month=mar
if (%moy%)==(3) set mont=03
if (%moy%)==(4) set month=apr
if (%moy%)==(4) set mont=04
if (%moy%)==(5) set month=may
if (%moy%)==(5) set month=05
if (%moy%)==(6) set month=jun
if (%moy%)==(6) set mont=06
if (%moy%)==(7) set month=jul
if (%moy%)==(7) set mont=07
if (%moy%)==(8) set month=aug
if (%moy%)==(8) set mont=08
if (%moy%)==(9) set month=sep
if (%moy%)==(9) set mont=09
if (%moy%)==(10) set month=oct
if (%moy%)==(10) set mont=10
if (%moy%)==(11) set month=nov
if (%moy%)==(11) set mont=11
if (%moy%)==(12) set month=dec
if (%moy%)==(12) set mont=12
if (%1)==(nofiles) goto year
del *.moy
echo %moy%>%moy%.moy
echo %month%>%month%.moy
:year
yr
for %%f in (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 96 97 98 99) do if errorlevel %%f set year=%%f
if (%1)==(nofiles) goto date
del *.yea
echo %year%>%year%.yea
echo %moy%-%dom%-%year%>date
:date
set date=%moy%-%dom%-%year%
goto end
:end
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