Archives for June 2007
We’ve posted a number of articles dealing with DOS batch files to date. Some articles were specifically about batch file writing, while others made good examples of what can be done with batch files. I thought a recap might be helpful.
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When it comes to hosting PHP on a local machine, there are almost as many options for making it happen as there are reasons for doing so. Perhaps you’d like to run an available PHP-based app for personal use, or you’d like to develop your own website and test it locally before deploying it live, or you want to host a PHP-based application as groupware on a local intranet (e.g. a group-calendar or a wiki).
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The Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) is a huge collection of system diagnostic and recovery tools that are conveniently arranged on a single CD. These tools work on any Intel-compatible PC. Since the CD is bootable, it doesn’t matter what operating system(s) may be installed on the PC. Indeed, UBCD comes in handiest when the normal operating system refuses to boot.
You Name It: The current version of UBCD contains 121 tools, divided into 21 categories, as follows. Each tool runs in isolation, as if it were the only tool on the CD (just as if the tool were on its own floppy disk). A master menu program boots up first. It lets you choose the tool you want to run, and then it boots that tool. (To run another tool, simply reboot and go through the main menu again.)
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This article is a follow-on to ZIP Up Files from the Command Line. In that article, I showed you how to program a batch file to make a quick backup of your most critical files, storing the backups in a ZIP file (or whatever type of archive file you prefer). The example I gave maintains a single ZIP archive, that is constantly updated every time you run the batch file. Instead, you may prefer to have the batch file retain distinct copies of the backups going back a day or two.
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As you certainly know, the right mouse button brings up what is known as the “context menu.” As the name implies, the choices available on the menu differ according to the current situation.
Well, here are 5 tips involving context menus that you may not know.
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One of the most useful tools in any computer users toolbox is an archiver/compression tool. Examples include 7-Zip, WinZip, PKZip, and WinRAR for the Windows platform, and gzip/tar for the Linux platform. Most people are familiar with the graphical user interfaces that these tools provide, dragging and dropping files into, and out of archives. But did you know that all of these tools also have commandline versions available? These are great for using in batch files to automate the process of compressing, or uncompressing, files. This makes it possible, with one click of a mouse button, to do things like:
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