Ancient Windows trick: if you use the string ".LOG" as the first four characters in a .txt-file, Notepad (or Metapad even) will append the current system date to the end of the file every time you open it, and position the cursor below.
- low wrote on 2002/12/19:
- Well wadd'ya know! Never to old to learn (tho it's supposed to be an ancient trick...).
- Calm_Pear wrote on 2002/12/20:
- How about that! never knew that... fun trick, it'll keep me bussy for hours, got 16 txt files allready! :-)
- Ruben wrote on 2002/12/20:
- Funny by the way that it doesn't work with .log in lowercase.
- Kevin wrote on 2002/12/22:
- thats one of the neatest tips I've ever heard of!
- pup wrote on 2002/12/24:
- this works in textpad as well.
- mados wrote on 2003/01/06:
- How abnormal. By the way, how to create a text file called .htaccess using plain Windows?