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   Ben Ritchey to Jay Allshire   
   Re: Random select file and rename   
   09 Mar 16 13:48:09   
   
   * An ongoing debate between Jay Allshire and All rages on ...   
      
    JA> I am trying to find a way wiht a batch file to select a random file   
    JA> from a given list of files (example: welcome.1 welcome.2 welcome.3   
    JA> welcome.4 etc) and have it choose one and then rename it to a given   
    JA> file name everytime (example welcome.clr) I am trying to make this so   
    JA> it will ramdomly rotate welcome screens for a old bbs program that I   
    JA> am running. If this is possible it would be great if someone could   
    JA> help me make this work.   
      
   I use Random Copier:   
      
   Rem Rc.Exe at http://www.homepages.ihug.com.au/~babfive/quentisl/rc.html   
   Rem   Random Copy archived as RNDCPY14.ZIP (58kB)   
      
   http://cmech.dynip.com/filebase.bbs/dl/dfut/rndcpy14.zip   
      
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