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$VER: PatternMove 1.0 (31.10.97)

Copyright (C) 1997 by Digital Surface/Kenneth "Kenny" Nilsen.
All rights reserved.

This little program (dosscript) will allow you to do advanced renaming on
files.

Installation -

- copy PMV to s:
- protect s:pmv +s

USAGE -

Template: PMV PATTERN/A,TOFORMAT/A

Pattern  - the file(s) you want to rename
ToFormat - how to format the new filename(s).

List of usefull format args (see complete list under LFORMAT for the LIST
command in the DOS manual):

 %E - Uses just the file extension
 %M - Uses the filename only, omitting any extension
 %N - Uses the whole filename
 %P - Uses the file parent path (includes a ":" or "/")

Examples:
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Rename all mod.<files> to <files>.mod

1> pmv mod.#? %E.mod

Rename all <files>.txt to just <files>

1> pmv *.txt %M

-- If you have set current dir (CD) to another dir then where the files are:

Rename mod.<files>.pp to mod.<files>

1> pmv ram:mod.#?.pp %P%M



 Regards,
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 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
[generic]                  188     246  76.4% -lh5- 2a42 Oct 31  1997 pmv
[generic]                  646    1177  54.9% -lh5- ae4c Oct 31  1997 PMV.readme
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total         2 files     834    1423  58.6%            Nov 18  1997