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In article <1993Jan24.135115.10741@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>, skhan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
(Shahab Raza Khan) writes:

> I have an interesting question.  I want to write a batch file
> which would do the following:
> 
> 1. Down load our backup software from one of our LANs.  The
>    software is not in compressed form but regular files.
> 2. Edit the autoexec.bat file to login to separate accounts on
>    the LAN (e.g. user1, user2 etc)
> 3. edit the config.tel file (for use with telnet) and change the
>    IP number in it (e.g. 129.174.1.1 129.174.1.2 etc)
> 
> I have a pretty good idea of how to do the downloading would
> work.  There are about 50 computers which have to be configured
> with the above procedure.  So far we have used manual ways to do
> this.  If anyone has a nice way of doing this please let me
> know.

I have followed up in News rather than mailing as requested, as this may
be of more general interest.

Believe it or not, EDLIN (that most ghastly of DOS "utilities") may be
the answer to your problem.  Its (sole ?) virtue lies in the fact that
it reads from stdin, so can be driven by a script file.

I've never used it in this manner (I've never used full stop, he adds
proudly  8-) ), but have seen some fiendishly clever batches in PC Mag
based (in part) on this.

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