[geeks] help, please..

[Dave Kimmel]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Thursday, April 18, 2002 at 19:36:33 (-0400), Kurt Huhn wrote: ]
> > Subject: [geeks] help, please..
> >
> > I've been put in the unfortunate position of having to write a DOS batch
> > script to configure and install some software for a client.
> > Unfortunately, while I seem to hae most of the major stuff covered, I
> > can't seem to find a DOS equivilent of 'sed'.  Does such a thing exist?
>
> Do you have access to any of those unix-like tool kits for DOS like, the
> MKS one, or the older "Percent" (c-shell), or mark williams c?  (MWC
> came with a DOS version of m4, and their 'ed' was potentially scriptable)

Isn't the plain old DOS 'edlin' scriptable using 'edlin file.txt <
script.txt' or something?

I seem to recall reading about batch files that generated edlin scripts to
do nifty things, but that was a very long time ago.  It might be worth a
shot...

-- Dave Kimmel
   crisco_kid at shaw.ca