> As some here may recall, I was a user of PC
> Magazine's MultiRen for sequential renaming

Tried that not as good as R-Nameit.

> For the most complex and flexible renaming tasks
> it's nice to know these specialty utilities are
> available.

Thats what I was talking about Greg.

> But ZTW's Ctrl- R ename mask rules has replaced
> MultiRen since last year for all my multiple file
> renaming, so far. It may take more steps than
> using a GUI, but they go faster for me. And it may
> not create an UnDo.Bat, but the tags and history
> are there if I need to retrace my steps. (I'm sure
> some batch file gurus here have a procedure for
> making UnDo.BAT too, if needed.)

And "most" of the time that's true for me too.

> Although it does so many things so well, I don't
> expect ZTW to be the ultimate best at every
> facility it touches on. I can do very nearly all
> the zipping & unzipping, multiple renaming,
> viewing, editing and anything else I need to do,
> from within ZTW very quickly and effectively. I've
> found nothing else that even comes close (for my
> MO anyway).

There you go "preaching to the Choir"

JimF