Hi! Bill,

On 19/09/2015 7:06 AM, you wrote:

 BG> Recently I asked about how to rename a log file to today's date.log,
 BG> and was referred to FDATE. Unfortunately that does not work for XP
 BG> (or at least I couldn't get it to work.)

I don't usually mess around with XP but I found one that might do it for you...

 BG> Anyone got an idea? I want to keep track of the sbbsecho.log files so
 BG> they won't get SO BIG. >
 BG> Ideas??

There's an oldie in the BFDS archives called...

  DATFIL12.ZIP         9,857  06-14-94    00:00:00

I just tried it in my wife's old XP SP2, and the bloody thing worked! Most
times anything DOS on it fails miserably.  :)

Also, I have a later version (v2.0) as a text capture that Bat Lang once
called a 'one-off bastard' in a netmail to me.  The v1.2 tool only renames a
file to the current day+month, using bits of the original filename for other
parts.  V2.0 throws in the year as well.

Let me know if you want the later version and I'll re-post the DEBUG script
for it.

Cheers,
Paul.

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