Familiar with DOS

[Akuma]

I need a DOS batch file to run on a Windows 2000 machine that will allow the user to input the name of a file, and that user defined file will be appened to a header file, and the appended information will be put into a new file. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

[arch0nmyc0n]

Well I suppose to could be possible as long as you run the batch file with the file name ie: a:\batchfile filename.txt then use the append command. I have dealt with batchfile processing in the past, been a while tho.

[deepblu]

I need a DOS batch file to run on a Windows 2000 machine that will allow the user to input the name of a file, and that user defined file will be appened to a header file, and the appended information will be put into a new file. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

A good resource for this is : http://www.labmice.net/scripting/

[rockymount]

Try this DOS code in a batch file:
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@ECHO off
:: filname.bat
IF "%1"=="" ECHO. must enter existing filename
IF "%1"=="" GOTO end
IF not exist %1 ECHO. file "%1" does not exist
IF not exist %1 GOTO end
IF exist enter.bat ECHO. enter.bat in current directory
IF exist enter.bat GOTO end
PATH>%temp%.\respath.bat
PATH %temp%;%path%
DIR/A-D/B/L/-P %1. > %temp%.\filname1.dat
ECHO. >> %temp%.\filname1.dat
DATE <%temp%.\filname1.dat | find "):" > %temp%.\filname1.bat
ECHO set fnam=%%4> %temp%.\enter.bat
FOR %%C in (call del) do %%C %temp%.\filname1.bat
FOR %%F IN (%temp%.\filname1.dat %temp%.\enter.bat) do DEL %%F
FOR %%C in (call del) do %%C %temp%.\respath.bat
:end
copy header.txt+%1 final.txt
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You will need a file called header.txt that contains the header info.
The user's filename must exist and the end result will be a file called final.txt that contains the appended data.

Hope this helps.

[confus-ed]

Well you get a for that as a 'first post' ... welcome to windrivers rockymount

Anyone tested this yet ? I'm as usual confus-ed by the original requirements, but this seems a 'very reasonable stab' to me