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ntbackup.exe - backup directly to a CD-RW
Hello, Is it possible to backup directly to a CD-RW device? I format my data CDs using DirectCD. I've read 2 Microsoft KB articles (320471 and 262006) which claim this is not possible. I don't believe it. Surely there is a guru out there who knows how to do this! Thanks, Craig Meyers Currently...- cmeyers
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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special characters and sed
Hi, I've got an oddball situation. I'm trying to expand a shell variable string in a sed statement. The string contains a special character. In this case the character is a forward slash (/). I believe other special characters will cause a similar problem - like parentheses, brackets, etc... -
excel listbox question - repost
I have a behavior issue with respect to a listbox I have inserted into an excel worksheet. Initially...upon loading the workbook...and activating the worksheet... When I first select an item in the listbox, that item remains highlighted when I select another item. Although this does not have an...- cmeyers
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- Forum: VBA Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft)
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listbox behavior in excel
I have a behavior issue with respect to a listbox I have inserted into an excel worksheet. Initially...upon loading the workbook...and activating the worksheet... When I first select an item in the listbox, that item remains highlighted when I select another item. Although this does not have an...- cmeyers
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- Forum: VBA Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft)
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Finding the right RE for sed substitution
Hi all, I'm having writer's block (must be Fri. 13th) Trying to write a basic sed substitution: sed "s/HTR4B/HTR2/g" file A relevant chunk of file looks like this: <PRM_ASSN>HTR4B.L</PRM_ASSN> <GMBE_NAME>LC_HTR4B.SDCS = PROC</GMBE_NAME> The problem is I do not want substrings... -
Shell Scripting Forum
Hello, Anyone know of a goo Shell Scripting Forum? I work almost exclusively in ksh93. So a ksh93-specific forum would be best. CraigMan >(::O> -
korn shell arrays
Feel up for a awk/ksh question? I'm trying to get data into a ksh while loop using ksh arrays. This I've found is more efficient than for-item-in-list construct. The problem is my array elements are descriptions which have spaces between the words. My descriptions are in the 2nd field of a CSV... -
newline in pattern
I'm trying to snag multiple lines of data by including the newline character in my pattern: gawk '/<NAME>.*<\/NAME>.*<SEQ>.*<\/SEQ>/' file.xml NAME and SEQ are each on one line. There may or may not be another line in between: <DESC>Description Here</DESC> My hope was that ".*"...
