Question

A good place to put batch files in Windows XP Professional is:
Answer
a.
The root drive of your hard disk
b.
In \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
c.
In \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
d.
In \WINDOWS\COMMAND\BATCH
e.
In \BATCH
HELP?

Answer 1

Does your book or class have anyghting about the PATH statement or default path? The batch file would need to be in the path to be run.

Answer 2

I couldn't find anything referring to this question :(

Answer 3

There very vague.....like this one

You are currently in the directory G:\USERS\MARYJ\DOCS. To rename all files with four, and only four, characters in their file name in the child directory CURRENT from .TXT to .DOC, use the _____________ command.
Answer
a.
REN \CURRENT\????.TXT ????.DOC
b.
RD CURRENT\????.TXT ????.DOC
c.
MOVE \CURRENT\????.TXT ????.DOC
d.
REN CURRENT\????.TXT ????.DOC
e.
REN \CURRENT\????.TXT\????.DOC

Answer 4

Well... vague is a relative term. Those are all 100% clear to me... but I know DOS commands. I just find it odd they would not give you a good command refeence when they are going to have these questions.

Answer 5

OK
Thanks for the help?

Answer 6

I don't even find much of a reference for path these days...

Answer 7

Here is a path from my machine:

PATH=D:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (August 2007)\Utilities\Bin\x86;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem;C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\GTK\2.0\bin;C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\bin;C:\Program Files\Intel\DMIX;C:\Program Files\GTK2-Runtime\bin;E:\Program Files\SlikSvn\bin\;C:\PROGRA~1\TIEDUC~1\TI-83P~1\UTILS;D:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\;C:\glut\include\GL;C:\glut\lib

Anything between ; is an execuatable search path where batch files could go. Look and see if you can find one of the answers hiding in there.

Answer 8

And in here:
http://www2.its.strath.ac.uk/courses/dos/

Look up rename and wildcard. Those should help a lot. And if you are in a class with more on DOS, that link has the full command list from what I see.