rather never noticed"iterate" Charles

Very nice. Thank you mikea & anrdaemon. Dir /z is what I'd forgotten; the help for /Z is a bit obscure. Luckily my old filenames are mangle-insensitive. Still I like mikea's "inelegant" file. I've had occasion to write a fair amount of btm files but never noticed echos or include.

I've forgotten how to list files including the description. Years ago I would save zipped archives of my software release and save a password in a description. I can still see the passwords - either direction in the file @descript.ion or by an expression including %@Descript[...], but I think it...

Thanks. These ways are much better.

I need a function to create a canonical version of a folder path, with leading but not trailing \. For example, typical input could be \mx\durango\ or mx\durango\ or mx\durango\. Output: \mx\durango My solution is so complicated that I think there must be a better way. First, I wrote...