Q. What is the easiest way to program Windows 2000 ?

[George]

Hi.

Given my question in the post, the next thing I'm usually asked is:

"What do you want to do" ?
All I need to do, is have a program that I can stick in any directory
where I know I have lots of txt files. and be able to:

1) display all the text files in that directory
2) copy, delete, or edit certain ones, with certain text I type in.

The program should be able to accept all my inputs, deletes, edits
ahead of time, and run when I click a "run" button.

Please do NOT recommend any kind of programming language like
Visual C or Visual Basic, or, in fact, anything from Microsoft.

So, please do NOT respond with anything like "You can do what you want
in Excel or Access VBA". I hate all of that crap.

It must be a 3rd party, ready program, given my specifications above,
to run on my Windows 2000pro.

Thanks,
George

 

[Dan Seur]

Seems to me that you have what you need built into W2k.

In Windows Explorer, using Search, select *.txt as your search ("find")
argument, and select any directory ("folder") or even an entire hard
drive you wish to search, and a list of all such files therein will appear.

Doubleclick on any found file, and if ".txt" files are associated with
Notepad, notepad will appear with that file opened. If you have
associated such files with some other program, that other program will
appear with that file opened.

Start|Help will further explain the above Search and Associate functions.