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Re: changing multiple partial file names Windows Vista
Subject:Re: changing multiple partial file names Windows Vista From:Ken Poshedly <poshedly -at- bellsouth -dot- net> To:salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:23:57 -0800 (PST)
Chris (at all),
I had already e-mailed Paul off-list that the DOS method worked!
I got into fulltime tech writing in 1984 when I was with a now-defunct computer
peripherals company (Quadram Corp). I think Windows was j-u-s-t coming out a
year or so after I started with Quadram, so all the directions we provided were
DOS commands. For instance, I instructed users how to make RAM-drives (remember
those) and backup floppy diskettes (the 5.25 inch kind that held 360K).The 640K
limit was just being broken with the "LIM Spec", a method of adding paged,
linear RAM (I think that's the correct description) to PC's and XT's.
The result was up to 16 MB of additional RAM in a machine that was originally
designed for no more than 640K. The "LIM" Spec" was a cooperative thing put
together by Lotus, Intel & Microsoft.
Ah, it's all coming back to me now . . .
-- Kenpo
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From: Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 1:08:20 PM
Subject: Re: changing multiple partial file names Windows Vista
In rereading your original question, do all you need to do is change the 660
portion to 550? If so, that's easy.
Open a command prompt (*Start* > *Run* > CMD) and then change to the
directory (folder) in which the files are located.
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