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I use them a lot Dave, they are old and simple and they work ( just like me )
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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You may be old and you may work, however, the evidence here on CP suggests that you are not simple.
Your signature suggests that you would never use a bat file.
Still, with appropriate chemical aids, you are probably capable of anything you desire.
....and yeah I use them to. It's a KISS thing I guess.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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I would use a stone axe if it fits the purpose! Nothing wrong with .BAT (we all love BATman)! 
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That's nuttin'
Last year, I installed an old 5 1/4" disk drive, so that I could read a file off a 25 year old floppy.
Truth,
James
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Not quite as old as a 5 1/4, but I did dig out a zip drive to see if there was anything useful on a collection of old backups that I found lurking in the depths of the garage. Very painful process trying to get it to work with a win 7 machine so I ended up grabbing an old win 2k machine that was also lurking in the garage - all just to check on old data.
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Don't deprecate your work. I use more or less daily a .dat file to copy .dll files after compiling my programs in VB.Net 2003. I'm proud that I could make the file because it avoids a lot of manual copy file work and frustrations when I forgot copying the files before start testing my changes.
Kind regards,
Dirk
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ActiveState Perl is what I use for that sort of thing. At least a perl script can do more stuff.
If it gets long enough move it to php or java.
If it still doesn't perform, c++.
But use whatever language ya know that'll work.
The language is less important than having something that's DONE.
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Nothing wrong or embarrassing about it, as long as it's the right hammer for the right nail.
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If Kanye West and Kim Kardashian were both drowning and you only had time to save one, what kind of sandwich would you make?
I just wish the elephanting wind and rain would stop, I haven't known such a persistent period of bad weather to batter these shores for such a long time. At least we aren't getting it as bad as some places. Well, we maybe are, but we are used to it 
I really just wish it would get a few Deg C colder so that the rain will turn to snow like it should be!
Oh, and for those back to work today, nae luck, at least it will nearly be time to go home. My kiddiewinkles go back to school tomorrow and the wife goes back to work. I might make an appearance in the office this week, but more likely go back on Monday, then offshore to my new platform on the Wednesday.
In the meantime, I am battling with 3 wii remotes that aren't working, they left them so long the batteries leaked inside. So with new batteries in, they only partially work. Strip down and clean up will hopefully do the trick, but they use some stupid screw head, so opening them might be a challenge!
modified 6-Jan-14 11:48am.
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DaveAuld wrote: If Kanye West and Kim Kardashian were both drowning
Had me worried there. Personal I like a good Rubin.
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A bacon sandwich. *DUH*
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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DING DING DING DING.........WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
That is of course the only accepted answer! 
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You need a dictionary.
I leave the exercise as to why one is needed to the class.
Homework by Friday please and permission slips for the school outing to Helga's House of Pain need to be handed in to Mr Vilmos before the 23rd of February.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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After you have removed the dictionary from your @rse is that it fixed?
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I cannot possibly fit a dictionary up my @rse there is a thesaurus up there already.
BTW
I saw a blue plaque attached to a house in Soho.
It said "This is the house in which Peter Mark Roget Lived (Dwelt, Abided, Inhabited)"
Nice to see someone with a good sense of humour!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Um. You do realize we have an Indian member with the username "rse", don't you?
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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I certainly do not want an Indian Member up my @rse
Or in fact any member at all!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Monolemma as per my answer upthread.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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How will he look it up if he can't spell it? 
Will Rogers never met me.
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For years I have used the saying "Wonderful thing a dictionary, if you know how to spell."
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DaveAuld wrote: but they use some stupid screw head, so opening them might be a challenge!
My solution to said condition is the Dremel Moto Tool. A cutting disk on the tool cuts a nice screw-driver friendly slot in the top of pretty much anything.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I did see them on Ebay, I have found that a flat blade of the correct width will happily sit into two of the wings and works ok.
I'll still maybe order one up just in case!
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