Subj : "On the Fly" Hex-numb conversion ... ???
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Wed Mar 06 2002 12:48 am

Hello Jasen,

    On Tuesday March 05 2002 at 07:02,
    Jasen Betts [3:640/531.42] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about:  "On the Fly" Hex-numb conversion ... ???

 GM>> I just checked my %INC directory and the only file that came
 GM>> "close" to violating 0000????.* was 00GLOBAL.ZIP, so I guess that
 GM>> I have to consider the possibility of receiving a 0000WHAT.*,
 GM>> 0000EVER.*, or 0000TEXT.* file (etc.)....

 JB> you could use 0000[0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F].*

I could.  I did.  It worked quite well (but of course, you
already knew that!).  This is exactly what I was looking for!
Thank you.

Is it possible that you can suggest a method to replace the
``.*'' using Rolf Jentsch suggestion (or something similar):

 RJ> set dx=[0-9]
 RJ> set ss=.su%dx;.mo%dx;.tu%dx;.we%dx;.th%dx;.fr%dx;.sa%dx

to handle the "valid" file extensions?

I've tried variations of:

    set de=%@substr[.su%dn;.mo%dn;.....

but I keep getting "File not found" error with the contents of
the ss line after the filename.....

           Cheers ... Gerald

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