I'm in the process of backing up my data, which might be the
least-stimulating thing a person does on a computer. I have collected the
images from usenet concerning the junior senator from new york and placed
them in a file. I would like to rename them en masse.

Part of this I can do in perl, part in fortran. Somehow it's got to add
together to a solution. This is going to be a long post, so I'll leave out
the perl part. For the fortran part we look to a little prog from Elliot
Chandler:

implicit none
integer i1,i2
character*33 s1
character*12 s2

Ron Ford wrote:

[...]

why reinventing the wheel?
use a freeware, like
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

...and there are many others! Ask Dr. Google!

On Thu, 08 May 2008 10:18:31 -0600, Me wrote:

Bravo, M!

The download is 800k from people who look trustworthy and competent. It
took about ten minutes of fiddling to get it right. What you realize is
that the files aren't going anywhere, so if you don't get it right on the
first try, try again.