Obviously, you wish to do a lot more than simply convert 20 or so files in
this manner, Ivan. Would be easier to simply do it one by one if that were
the case.

I'm not familiar enough with batch files to advise on their use, but I would
use Windows Scripting for this, Ivan. Ping me privately and I'll be glad to
help. It's a bit much for this group.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP for Win9x

"Ivan Bútora" wrote in message
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Hi everyone,

not sure if the subject of this thread is a good way to describe what I want
to do, but here it is. Basically I wish to convert several (many) files from
WordPerfect format to T602 format. For this, I have a small utility
"pre602.exe" which functions in this way:

PRE602.EXE [parameters] inputfile outputfile

In my case, let's say I wish to convert a file called "text.wp", I would do:
pre602 /d:5 text.wp text.602


Question 1
Imagine I have twenty files I want to convert, and I don't want to do each
one individually. Is there any way to do this using a batch file? If I put
all those files in one folder, is there any way how to generate a list of
those files, and then run this list through the pre602.exe command
automatically?


Question 2
I want to define a custom action for .wp files which would do the conversion
to .602. I was able to do something like this:

pre602.exe /d:5 %1 new.602
However, I am not able to figure out a way to refer to the part of the
filename before the file extension, and thus I had to make the output file
something fixed, which I subsequently have to rename. I know "%1" refers to
the file that the action is taken on. If the file is, say, "xxx.wp", is
there any way to refer just to "xxx"?

Thanks for your input.

Ivan