To: parabola@paradise.net.nz,julian
Subject:THKS/Find; all I really needed! julian renamer 7/1 to 7-1. plse.
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greeting Julian.  Don't worry about that problem.

I've nearly found that Filer.Find  can probably
rename objects or find them much faster!!

But I am still interested
 require some kind of backup onto removable media!
(Your father's Easidrive may be too old?)

sorry about that!
Kind regards

don.mcdonald.

20.10.03  01:04   Sunday night.
04/389-6820.

> .MZD03.MZD03-Oct.FilerFind
   Pgms.ProgramsPD.RenamDon1

subject: RISC OS filer Find, rename / goes to -.

Greeting Julian,

I would like to report on my maintenance of files.
And see what you think, please.

Every few 8 months I run
*spool ...
*count * r v  ??

I've never used Filer Find much.
I think it could be slower + hammer my hard drives.
    ProgramsPD.renamdon  program
    .ProgramsPD.renamdon1   this textfile. >>>

e.g. i could interactively search my spooled file for
j-u-l-i-a-n...

or find all 'stoke'


I now have over 20,ooo? files on Acorn A5000  RISC OS 3.11.
I think I can only count part of my directories at
a time and still be able to read with StrongEd. (4MB RAM)

my renamdon program is reasonable.
i've fixed a lot of files and directories that included '/'.

then i did
*dir bbc
find */*

eventually i changed them all.
if i copy (backup??) from ide4. to my second HDD ide disc 5
the renamed directories would greatly increase the
size of dir bbc.

If I had a bit of free space i
renamed    bbc oldbbc. on ide5.
copy bbc            from ide4 to ide5
then delete oldbbc.


>  I have just written this program.  17.10.03
>  
>  I wonder if I should rename all objects containing '/'
>  to '-' ?  What happens if the '-' object already exists?

no problem, well no great danger
 it does not rename if the (putative??) name already exists.

>  
>  I expect a program could exist which renames
>  the whole ide disc4 drive?

perhaps I could get into the code for Filer.find
and make some changes??? XXXX   NO.

essentially this would be 'findrename'
replace partname each / by partname -.
confirm?
continue?

'findrename' would work on *ram *adfs
and $ rootdir or any directory.

note.
renamef ??  application just changes all files to sequence?
d1 d2 d3 d4 d5 d6 ... etc.

not what i want.

thank you

cheers
don.mcdonald

19.10.03  17:42
04/ 389-6820.

P.S.
my BASIC6 program factorised number 1E15+3 by trial.. YYYY.  ....
example...

(factor phone nums, birthdates, credit card numbers.
  **continued fraction? method  2^52=4.5E15, 1E15+3 =  14.9E6 *67.1E6)

by don.mcdonald.pgm.c241Q. BBC Basic64.Risc os.Acorn Archimedes comp 1990.

== LETTER values :
C,A,T = 03,01,20. 
(BASE 100, Alternate base 27, teleph keypad)

(prob) -- #formula,--  value, --   FACTORS -- ,  (centiseconds).
---   
2  "JULIAN WRIGHT"(tele..keypad
   =585426974448= 2^2*3*2^2*12196395301prime 20s.
   
3  "J  U  L  I  A  N  W"(base 100..=
   10,21,12,09,01,14,23= 3*3*7*3*3*3*6003062323prime 20s.

4  "JULIAN"(base 27..=154892129= 7*53*89*4691*all 6cs

5  9762663 ST VLY..=9762663= 3*3254221*all 15cs

6  5682662 KOROKORO??..=5682662= 2*197*14423*all 6cs

7  56826629762663.. concat 2x phone numbers
  =56826629762663= 2159081*26319823prime 3mn

8  021636559 CELL PHONE..=21636559= 7*181*17077*all 6cs

9  "STOKES VALLEY"(tele..keypad
   =786537825539= 1091*20117*35837*all 1s.

enter = close ,  or <ESC> resume.?
e n d. prog c241Q  24.2.03   close *spool
