Re: Renaming files with a date in bat file

> How do I rename a file to something like todays date, 06272007.log inside a
> batch file?  I wish to archive my bbs logs into the file area with vupload.
>
> Thanks

I basically, a long time ago, not long after I started with VADV in 1996, wrote
and compiled a simple quickbasic program to do it for me, and had it run at
12:00am.  Basically, I would do it this way because it automatically saves the
log as BBSLOG.1 for the previous day (and BBSLOG.2 for 2 days before and
BBSLOG.3 for 3 days before).  I would have my nightly maintenance batch file
back up the log by running BAKUPLOG.EXE that I created, which copies the
BBSLOG.1 to LGmmddyy.BBS, mmddyy being the month, day, and year, respectively.
I would do the same for the network log and call log, and name them to
LGmmddyy.NET and LGmmddyy.CAL.  The batch would add them to BBSLOG.zip,
NETLOG.zip, and CALLS.zip, so I could open up the archive at any time to look
up a certain day.  But, anyway, that is how I did it, and it has worked for 11
years.

Chris

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