<!-- BEGIN AUTO INSERTION BLOCK OF menu template -->
    [your menu code goes here]
<!-- END AUTO INSERTION BLOCK OF menu template -->

Usage is instmpl8.exe [Template-file] [Target-file]
The markers being looked for are
  "<!-- BEGIN AUTO INSERTION BLOCK OF "
  "<!-- END AUTO INSERTION BLOCK OF "
(The quotes are not included, of course).
There must be only one set of markers in the [Template-file].
A log file will be found in the same folder as instmpl8.exe if there are any errors.

todayat 9:45a
todayat 21:50 - You can even add a comment
todayat :30

setcurpos 0 0		Cursor to upper left
setcurpos 12 60		Cursor to upper left - perhaps to the Back button on your browser
setcurpos 9999/2 9999/2		Cursor to center of screen
setcurpos 20 9999-10		Cursor to Start button

The are also 3 possible command line flags to SetCurPos.exe:

• -g   Get the current cursor position and save it in SetCurPos.txt
• -s   Set the cursor position to the value saved in SetCurPos.txt
• -r   Become memory Resident (hides itself - run again to unhide)

<!-- Insert Calendar Below -->
<!-- Insert Calendar Above -->

Example: Running the Netscape E-Mail application
1. Change to a directory that is in your path
2. copy DoIt.exe NSmail.exe
3. echo "C:\Program Files\Netscape\Communicator\Program\netscape.exe" -mail > NSmail.dat
Now just add the following to your batch file:
NSmail

Example: Calling myeditor with certain flags set:
1. Change to a directory that is in your path
2. copy DoIt.exe ed.exe
3. echo c:\mypath\myeditor.exe -flags > ed.dat
Now just type:
C:\any\path>ed filename.ext

Examples:

traverse del *.bak
traverse grep printf *.c

Usage is traverse {-flag(s)} [some command line to run]
The given command will be run in the current directory & all subdirectories
the optional echo -flag can be one of the following:
    -q echos nothing
    -d echos the drive:directory as each is entered
    -o echos the directories without any drive
    -D only echos the command followed by the drive:directory in quotes
    -O only echos the command followed by the directory in quotes
          (-D and -O do not actually run the command - they only echo)
    (Default is to echo drive:directory and command)
the optional limit -flag limits the depth of subdirectories
    -0 only the current directory, no subdirectories
    -1 the current directory and its subdirectories
    -2 the current directory, its subdirectories and their subdirectories
    -N where N is a number: current dir, and subdirs to N levels

What running UnInst1d.Exe does is add its own name to the front of the UninstallString key at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Uninstall\<AppName> where <AppName> was set by the entry in the Application Name field of the Application Information dialog in InstallShieldŽ. Then when the uninstall is run from the ControlPanel/AddRemovePrograms dialog box, UnInst1d.Exe is called with a command line of UnInstallShieldŽ command. UnInst1d.Exe makes all *.dll, *.txt and *.isr files read-only; spawns the UnInstallShieldŽ command; then marks all *.dll, *.txt and *.isr files as read-write again after InstallShieldŽ finishes.

If there are other files besides *.dll, *.txt and *.isr that you need to prevent from being prematurely uninstalled, create a file named Uninst1d.txt that contains a single ANSI text line with each filename (they can include * and ?) separated by one space. Maximum additional filenames is 30 using no more than 500 bytes. Add this Uninst1d.txt file to the directory along with Uninst1d.Exe.

If there is only one package left in the directory, when it is uninstalled, Uninst1d.Exe does nothing except spawn UnInstallShieldŽ and immediately exit so all files are removed including itself.

If you distribute Uninst1d.Exe as part of a commercial package, please read the note that can be seen in the Windows Explorer File/Properties dialog box for Uninst1d.Exe in the Version tab at the Legal Trademarks entry and pay the appropriate fee.

Note: UnInst1d.Exe only works with InstallShieldŽ and UnInstallShieldŽ

1. It automatically stores previous ClipBoard entries of type TEXT and OEMTEXT. If there is a horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the window, there are previous ClipBoard entries available - use the scrollbar to view them. If you find an entry that you would like to be the current contents of the ClipBoard, press the "Copy to ClipBoard" button just above the scrollbar. The previous entries (up to 32 of them) are stored in an internal 4096 byte buffer. This buffer is saved to disk when the program exits or File/SaveBuffer is selected. They are stored in most-recently-used order. Only TEXT and OEMTEXT entries are saved and only if they are less than 1024 bytes long.

2. You can place numeric markers on ClipBoard entries so that they can be retrieved to the ClipBoard with a single keystroke. To mark the currently displayed entry, press the letter 'm' and then press a number between 0 and 9. To retrieve a marked entry, simply press the number you used to mark it and it will be copied to the clipboard. Entries of type TEXT, OEMTEXT and RTF can be marked and retrieved.

copythis2 /f c:/dir/filename.ext => filename.ext

copythis2 /f /q "C:\Program Files\Dir\File Name.ext" => File Name.ext

copythis2 /i /fredunix/dir/filename.ext => /fredunix/dir/filename.ext

I'm using your CopyThis utility in my WinXP SendTo menu as a simple way to copy a path/filename to the clipboard. It works just fine, but I'd would like to have the possibility to just copy the filepart of the path. Would it be possible for you to add a /f option to CopyThis that does this?

CopyFile can be used with batch files to quickly place data on the clipboard. Here's an example of a batch file that will copy the current date and time to the clipboard:

@echo off
date /T > %temp%\now.txt
time /T >>%temp%\now.txt
copyfile  %temp%\now.txt
del       %temp%\now.txt

Usage is lsed [find-str-file] [replace-str-file] [input-file]
      where
• [find-str-file] is a one line file containing the text to find,
• [replace-str-file] is a one line file containing the text to replace the found text. This file could consist of just a CR LF,
• [input-file] saved with extension BAK; it must not have extension TMP

Example: for %h in (*.ht*) do lsed find.txt replace.txt %h

Usage is lgrep {options} [pattern] [filename]
[pattern] is matched against lines of [filename]
{options} are as follows:
-c Output to stdout is matching lines of [fiilename] with 10 lines preceding the matched line & 12 following the matched line
-# Output to stdout is matching lines of [fiilename] where # <= 50 is number of lines to print as context with #/2 lines preceding the matched line & #/2 following the matched line
-#1:#2 Output to stdout is matching lines off [filename] with #1 lines preceding the matched line & #2 following the matched line
-b matches only at beginning of line
-e matches only at end of line
-i ignore case
-w matches words
-v print lines where pattern is NOT found (ssets #==1)
-t precedes file with a title line
-n line-numbers each line and *'s each matchhed line
-p pauses after each context (ignored with --v)

C:\dir>dump 20-ff.txt
00000000  20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F   !"#$%&'()*+,-./
00000010  0D 0A 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 3A 3B 3C 3D  ˇ▪0123456789:;<=
00000020  3E 3F 0D 0A 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4A 4B  >?ˇ▪@ABCDEFGHIJK
00000030  4C 4D 4E 4F 0D 0A 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59  LMNOˇ▪PQRSTUVWXY
00000040  5A 5B 5C 5D 5E 5F 0D 0A 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67  Z[\]^_ˇ▪`abcdefg
00000050  68 69 6A 6B 6C 6D 6E 6F 0D 0A 70 71 72 73 74 75  hijklmnoˇ▪pqrstu
00000060  76 77 78 79 7A 7B 7C 7D 7E 7F 0D 0A 80 81 82 83  vwxyz{|}~.ˇ▪....
00000070  84 85 86 87 88 89 8A 8B 8C 8D 8E 8F 0D 0A 90 91  ............ˇ▪..
00000080  92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 9A 9B 9C 9D 9E 9F 0D 0A  ..............ˇ▪
00000090  A0 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 AA AB AC AD AE AF  ................
000000A0  0D 0A B0 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 BA BB BC BD  ˇ▪..............
000000B0  BE BF 0D 0A C0 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 CA CB  ..ˇ▪............
000000C0  CC CD CE CF 0D 0A D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9  ....ˇ▪..........
000000D0  DA DB DC DD DE DF 0D 0A E0 E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7  ......ˇ▪........
000000E0  E8 E9 EA EB EC ED EE EF 0D 0A F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5  ........ˇ▪......
000000F0  F6 F7 F8 F9 FA FB FC FD FE FF 0D 0A              ..........ˇ▪

Example: splitit filename.ext
Restore: copy /b splitit.1+splitit.2+splitit.3 filename.ext

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