SE4Batch status?

[Ruatha]

Ok, found a good way for win9x, don't have that os so I can't test it (but it works ok on my win XP):

code:

---

   @echo off >NULL

   if not [%1]==[] goto Okay

   echo Syntax: %0 Number

   goto End

  :Okay



   if [%2]==[::] goto 2nd time around

   if [%3]==[::] goto 3rd time around

   if [%4]==[::] goto 4th time around

   if [%5]==[::] goto 5th time around

   %comspec% /e:2048 /c %0 %1 ::

   goto End

  :2nd time around

   for %%v in (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) do call %0 %1 %%v ::

   goto End

  :3rd time around

   for %%v in (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) do call %0 %1 %2 %%v ::

   goto End

  :4th time around

   for %%v in (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) do call %0 %1 %2 %3 %%v ::

   goto End

  :5th time around

   echo %2%3%4

   if [%1]==[%4] exit

   if [%1]==[%3%4] exit

   if [%1]==[%2%3%4] exit

   start /w Gamepath\Se4.exe "Game" "password" "0" "modname" 

  :End

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Call it with
AUTO 12 (or whatever you've saved it as!)
for 12 loops

It's a nice self calling batch file.

Found this nice solution here:
http://www.pressroom.com/~tglbatch/counting.html

[ April 11, 2004, 13:09: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Master Belisarius]

Hey, THANKS Ruatha!
The new .Bat worked without problems in Win98!
Seems like I will need to take a look into the website you suggested, because seems chinese to me!

[Aiken]

Really great script Ruatha. Thank you.
And to make it complete: how can we add "backup every x turns" feature into this? Sometimes it's really usefull.
And the Last one - is where any way to grab turn date from .gam file to insert it to the backup name?

Would appreciate your help.

[Fyron]

Doesn't MB's program do that anyways?

[Aiken]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Doesn't MB's program do that anyways?

Unfortunately, not. SE4B will add local timestamp to the end(beginning?) of the backup file name. I know that's good enough, but the se4 year would be better

Edit: Never mind, I'll better try zsh than this poor cmd.exe.

[ April 11, 2004, 22:04: Message edited by: aiken ]

[Fyron]

Well, the turn date is encrypted in the savegame files, so the only way to do it is to have a counter going in the program/batch code and hope it matches up.

[Aiken]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Well, the turn date is encrypted in the savegame files, so the only way to do it is to have a counter going in the program/batch code and hope it matches up.

That's the typical header of .gam file:
 №г —–и ёxp8 1.91 24105 19Simultaneous Different Machines

So regexp 24\d\d\d will always catch turn date, but I doubt where's a way to paste it into the file name with help of native windoze utils.