>I am replying to this myself as I have a solution. I found a utility
>that runs on NT4 and W2K server that will allow editing of files with bat
>files.
>
>I was able to add lines (2 lines!) to my original batch process to format
>the information as I wanted. I can see lots of potential for this utility
>with IMail to get visibility to info for mail management...
>
>The program is called texttool at website www.fireflysoftware.com.
>Cost is 29.00...
yawn :)))
You can do that with Unix tools of sed (stream editor) or te(translate),
etc and much, much more with the www.ProfSoftware.com �s UnixDos toolkit.
It�s a 32 bit pkg in spite of the "dos" name. Automated, scripted text
processing is one area where Unix has excelled cmpared to MS.
Len
>bob
>
>On Wednesday, June 13, 2001 3:30 PM, Bob McGregor
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am trying to create a batch file that can run against the
> >users directory in the IMail folder to identify accounts that
> >have an Info Manager message(main.inf file). -- Easy part...
> >
> >Next I want to get the create date of the main.inf file so we
> >will know when it was created so we can time the deletion of
> >the account. Here's an example of where I am now with the
> >batch file:
> >
> > Directory of D:\testbatch\users\test_user2
> >06/06/01 03:17p 13 main.inf
> > Directory of D:\testbatch\users\test_user3
> >06/06/01 03:17p 13 main.inf
> >
> >What I'd like to do now and am not sure how to proceed is to
> >parce the info so I can get the folder name(user id) and
> >date/time onto a single line so we have a good list to work
> >from.
> >
> >Here's what I'd like the resulting file to look like:
> >
> >test_user2 06/06/01 03:17p
> >test_user3 06/06/01 03/17p
> >
>
>
>
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