Actually, if you are on a newer version of windows the explorer has a search bar where you can filter on anything including extension. From there do your deletions in the current directory only....
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:u2-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Clark > Sent: Saturday, 18 February 2012 7:55 a.m. > To: U2 Users List > Subject: Re: [U2] mvToolbox--digression about why anyone would want > telnet-based tools > > actually your example is pretty easy on current windows versions. Type > *.txt into the windows explorer search box, then select and delete. On the > upside, when you delete the files, you know for sure what directory you are > in because it's in the title bar. On the down side, your search retrieved not > just the files in this directory, but in all the sub directories, which could > be > a plus if that's what you want, but is probably a downside because you still > need to narrow the select. > > I used to use pick on a Stratus computer. The main OS was Stratus' VOS > (based on multics, tasted a little like VMS with unix finish). All > green-screen > but the VOS commands were very verbose. But for every single command > you could press a function key which popped up a form which contained > every option/flag/default. They had put a lot of effort into making the VOS > command line easy. That could probably be done for a pick command line > as well (or for windows). > > I used to work with Motorola Codex communication equipment > (multiplexed hundreds of serial connections over a t1 line so users in > remote offices could green-screen into the application. The Codex itself had > a serial port that you connected a terminal to to issue management > commands (they added telnet later). The command set was pretty simple, > but they also provided a gui. there was a pc running Windows 1 with a > serial connection. The windows app gave you menus and forms, and then > types commands to the control port and captured and screen-scraped (just > a little) the output. The thing is, when they trained out people to use the > system, they never mentioned that you could just use a terminal. The > program was godawful and crashed all the time. It was completely in the > way of issuing simple commands. > > My point is that if you know the commands then just typing them is easy, > and you probably don't want a gui in the way. If you don't know them, a > user interface (either gui or text) can make it easier--or just be a crutch. > > As for why telnet is still around--don't beat up on telnet. it's just a > protocol. > If you wanted to, you could write iPad apps that used telnet as a transport. > you could put a beautiful gui on the front of an app running on an old pick > box that can only do telnet. > > The real question is why is green-screen still around, and that has been > argued endlessly. It's still here and a lot of people like it. > > > > > On Feb 17, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Wjhonson wrote: > > > > > "Why is DOS still on Windows? Because there are some things you just > > can't do easily with windows," > > > > Just the other day I did a > > del *.txt > > > > pretty trivial to do at the DOS prompt. Rather more cumbersome to do > > in a Window click click click point, select click click select point > > click..... > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: George Gallen <[email protected]> > > To: U2 Users List <[email protected]> > > Sent: Fri, Feb 17, 2012 6:20 am > > Subject: Re: [U2] mvToolbox > > > > > > Why? Because it has almost no overhead, and has the most flexibility. > > Can the 3 year old (assuming they understood the process) select items > > from one ile based on selection Then pull items from another file > > using a related ID and save that list. > > Perform that again on two other files and save that list. > > Merge those two, and then push that list into an application that > > emails a file The above would take 2-3 min to do with telnet. > > IT would take significantly longer to do with a GUI front end. > > telnet is excellent for administration and development. Once you know > > what you ant, then you an use the GUI to setup a nice interface for > > those that want to point and lick. > > Why is DOS still on Windows? Because there are some things you just > > can't do asily with windows, r without writing/buying an application. > > George > > -----Original Message----- > > rom: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] > > n Behalf Of Doug Averch > > ent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:17 PM > > o: U2 Users List > > ubject: Re: [U2] mvToolbox > > > > hy are we using telnet in > > 2 as our main form of communication? > > In today's world a 3 year old can use an iPad to access a Universe or > > nidata database application. We sell an Alpaca herd management that > > runs n the iPad and our granddaughter used the application "Who's your > daddy?" > > o find out who the alpaca's daddy is. 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