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 Message 172 
 Ben Ritchey to Jay Allshire 
 Re: Random select file and rename 
 09 Mar 16 13:48:09 
 
* An ongoing debate between Jay Allshire and All rages on ...

 JA> I am trying to find a way wiht a batch file to select a random file
 JA> from a given list of files (example: welcome.1 welcome.2 welcome.3
 JA> welcome.4 etc) and have it choose one and then rename it to a given
 JA> file name everytime (example welcome.clr) I am trying to make this so
 JA> it will ramdomly rotate welcome screens for a old bbs program that I
 JA> am running. If this is possible it would be great if someone could
 JA> help me make this work.

I use Random Copier:

Rem Rc.Exe at http://www.homepages.ihug.com.au/~babfive/quentisl/rc.html
Rem   Random Copy archived as RNDCPY14.ZIP (58kB)

http://cmech.dynip.com/filebase.bbs/dl/dfut/rndcpy14.zip

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