Hello,
How can I write a vbs file in windows 2000 that handles
the following?
1. Open a text file
2. jump a few lines
3. read the rest of lines and write to another file
4. exit
Any Help, of is there any news group that I can ask this?
Thanks
Jim.

You don't need a vbs file for such a simple task. The
following batch file will do it quite nicely:

@echo off
type c:\Jim.txt | more +5 > c:\new.txt


"Jim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:035f01c36aa2$fe84fb40$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
> How can I write a vbs file in windows 2000 that handles
> the following?
> 1. Open a text file
> 2. jump a few lines
> 3. read the rest of lines and write to another file
> 4. exit
> Any Help, of is there any news group that I can ask this?
> Thanks
> Jim.
>

Thanks Pegasus,
I need to skip a few lines at the button too, how can I do
that?
Thanks,
Jim


>-----Original Message-----
>You don't need a vbs file for such a simple task. The
>following batch file will do it quite nicely:
>
>@echo off
>type c:\Jim.txt | more +5 > c:\new.txt
>
>
>"Jim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:035f01c36aa2$fe84fb40$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hello,
>> How can I write a vbs file in windows 2000 that handles
>> the following?
>> 1. Open a text file
>> 2. jump a few lines
>> 3. read the rest of lines and write to another file
>> 4. exit
>> Any Help, of is there any news group that I can ask
this?
>> Thanks
>> Jim.
>>
>
>
>.
>

What you're doing here is called "scope creep" . . .
AFAIK your new requirement is well outside the scope
of a batch file, as it requires counting & storing lines,
perhaps even going backwards in your text file. On
the other hand, if the lines to be skipped are
characterised by a common string then you can
use the find command to suppress them.


"Jim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:09b201c36b09$30e94ee0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks Pegasus,
> I need to skip a few lines at the button too, how can I do
> that?
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >You don't need a vbs file for such a simple task. The
> >following batch file will do it quite nicely:
> >
> >@echo off
> >type c:\Jim.txt | more +5 > c:\new.txt
> >
> >
> >"Jim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >news:035f01c36aa2$fe84fb40$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> Hello,
> >> How can I write a vbs file in windows 2000 that handles
> >> the following?
> >> 1. Open a text file
> >> 2. jump a few lines
> >> 3. read the rest of lines and write to another file
> >> 4. exit
> >> Any Help, of is there any news group that I can ask
> this?
> >> Thanks
> >> Jim.
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >

Try the microsoft.public.server.scripting newsgroup, Also
check out
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp
url=/technet/scriptcenter/Default.asp




>-----Original Message-----
>What you're doing here is called "scope creep" . . .
>AFAIK your new requirement is well outside the scope
>of a batch file, as it requires counting & storing lines,
>perhaps even going backwards in your text file. On
>the other hand, if the lines to be skipped are
>characterised by a common string then you can
>use the find command to suppress them.
>
>
>"Jim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:09b201c36b09$30e94ee0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Thanks Pegasus,
>> I need to skip a few lines at the button too, how can I
do
>> that?
>> Thanks,
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >You don't need a vbs file for such a simple task. The
>> >following batch file will do it quite nicely:
>> >
>> >@echo off
>> >type c:\Jim.txt | more +5 > c:\new.txt
>> >
>> >
>> >"Jim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> >news:035f01c36aa2$fe84fb40$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >> Hello,
>> >> How can I write a vbs file in windows 2000 that
handles
>> >> the following?
>> >> 1. Open a text file
>> >> 2. jump a few lines
>> >> 3. read the rest of lines and write to another file
>> >> 4. exit
>> >> Any Help, of is there any news group that I can ask
>> this?
>> >> Thanks
>> >> Jim.
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>
>
>.
>