: About Me

Jason Garland is a professional computer technician and has been for over ten years. He enjoys photography, hiking, kayaking, early music, writing, birding, and of course technology. In 2008 he graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in Comparative Literature and continues to read widely, particularly in the areas of Medieval and Asian Literature. He lives in Athens, GA.

I know too much about ...

computers

My childhood ambition ...

to be Indiana Jones

My favorite memory ...

times out at my grandparents' house in Lacasine, La.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Decameron, Two Years Before the Mast, Arabian Nights, The Subtle Knife, and many, many more

My first job ...

Bag Boy!

Computers & Technology > Software & Web Development Batch file: What it does

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If you were using computers back in the days of MS-DOS, then you probably remember how tedious it was to type a series of commands at the DOS prompt to do something as simple as create a directory in a specific folder or delete a block of files. The batch file anticipated that users would sometimes perform functions requiring multiple sequential DOS commands often enough that they would want to be able to easily compile those commands into a simple, intuitive script. Well, you can't get more intuitive than a batch file. Requiring nothing more than a plain text editor (Notepad, anyone?), cr...

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