CBBS(R) 4.0.3b 12/22/92 21:50:31 Welcome updated 09/12/92; CBBS(R)/Chicago (312) 545-8086 YOU CAN S Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U ?^U ?^U ?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss Logging name to disk... You are caller 228354; next msg =45971; 377 active msgs. Prev. call 12/21/92 @ 00:50, next msg was 45969 Recording logon for next time. Use FULL? to check assignments ?^U ?xxxxx "Mine" command checking for msgs TO you, ^K to a >Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-20 log,ward c;or;*;short LOG. 10 KILLED. 51 SUMMARY. 25 3,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#45969,4 12/21/92,01:06:35,228334,2,BILL MATTSON,,1 12/21/92,09:05:54,228335,2,ELI LEHRER,,3 12/21/92,09:52:35,228336,2,GERALD PINE,,2 12/21/92,10:27:06,228337,2,LARRY GLASSMAN,,1 12/21/92,12:06:34,228338,2,JOHN LIN,,6 12/21/92,18:57:20,228339,2,ANDY SHAPIRO,, E#45970,4 12/21/92,20:02:51,228340,2,BERNARD GOLDLUST,,1 12/21/92,20:23:22,228341,2,BERNARD GOLDLUST,,0 12/21/92,20:28:39,228342,2,JOEY GIANAS,chicago,10 12/21/92,23:17:51,228343,1,TONY ANTONUCCI,,6 12/22/92,00:17:36,228344,2,DAVID JOHNSON,,10 12/22/92,06:39:41,228345,1,JAMES SCHMIDT,,4 12/22/92,08:47:57,228346,2,LARRY GLASSMAN,,1 12/22/92,12:17:19,228347,2,STEVE AIDIKONIS,,0 12/22/92,15:14:05,228348,2,STEVE RYAN,,3 12/22/92,16:19:51,228349,1,LANE LARRISON,,1 12/22/92,18:47:19,228350,2,NORB DEMBINSKI,,6 12/22/92,20:29:40,228351,2,DAYLYN MEADE,,5 12/22/92,21:32:16,228352,2,BILL MATTSON,,1 12/22/92,21:38:29,228353,2,BERNARD GOLDLUST,,0 12/22/92,21:50:36,228354,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, 45969 12/21/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ALL: "DISK CLEANUP TIP" 45970 12/21/92 ANDY SHAPIRO => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/DISK CLEANUP TIP" - End of summary - Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts. Msg 45969 is 14 line(s) on 12/21/92 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to ALL re: DISK CLEANUP TIP Heh. I needed to clean up my system disk. I had about 350 programs in it, i.e. little (and some not so little) utilities, bat files, etc. I was trying to figure how to clean it up without removing something important or having to stare at each name. I finally decided to create an .\unused subdir under the directory (called \sys\bin), and move all my files to it, then move back the ones I KNOW I use a lot. The first day, I kept getting errors as things I use weren't there - so I popped into TREEVIEW to move what was missing back. The next day only a few showed up - fewer and fewer each day. So now, I've got about 75 files in my directory, and 275 in the .\unused directory! Seems to be working out just fine! Msg 45970 is 08 line(s) on 12/21/92 from ANDY SHAPIRO to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/DISK CLEANUP TIP Sounds good - but what if you had two progams with the same name? Then you'd still have the second one, but.! Of course, I expect you keep backups :-). My solution to staring at file names is to use 4DOS's description function so that I have a description for all of my files that are 'non-obvious' - \bin\util, \bin\graphics, etc. The description comes up when I do DIR, and is also present if I use select del (*.*) to do some up- cleaning. dup. chars. >Function:?rep I don't understand 'REP', WARD Type ? for list of valid commands. >Function:?reply 45970 Msg #:?45970 Msg 45970 is 08 line(s) on 12/21/92 from ANDY SHAPIRO to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/DISK CLEANUP TIP Y/N:?y Msg 45971 01 ? > What if you had two programs with the same name? 02 ? I don't get it. How could I? I moved ALL my executable utilties 03 ?down to a \sys\bin\unused, then move 'em back as I need 'em. 04 ? matter of fact I wrote a little "I.bat" that looks first for a .COM, 05 ?then a .EXE, then a .BAT, and if finding one, moves it back from 06 ?...unused to \sys\bin. 07 ? You say your solution is to use 4DOS's description function - 08 ?my problem isn't that I don't know what they are - it is that it 09 ?would be a big process to sort thru 300 executable programs trying to 10 ?decide which you really use. With my trick, if you try to use it, 11 ?you have to "bring it back" from the ...\unused directory. 12 ? Actually, I have MEGABYTES to clean up on another system - but 13 ?it is not a matter of not knowing what it is, it is a matter of 14 ?trying to decide what to keep. I have a large neough hard disk that 15 ?I've become a pack rat - I have Turbo C, 1.0, 20, Turbo C++, Borland 16 ?C++, etc. Actually, the only one I use it Turbo C 2.0, so I'm 17 ?wondering if I should just "Blow the others away". But then again 18 ?might be nice to keep 'em around in case I "grow" into C++..