Topic: Question 15 answers go here

[Mark]

In AutoCAD, name two ways to rename a layer?

[Keith™]

Well, the obvious is to use the layer dialog and the other would be .. I ain't tellin .. let someone else do it .... but I do know

[Dinosaur]

Well, the obvious is to use the layer dialog and the other would be .. I ain't tellin .. let someone else do it .... but I do know

You mean like the clunky old RENAME command?

[TR]

Well, the obvious is to use the layer dialog and the other would be .. I ain't tellin .. let someone else do it .... but I do know

You mean like the clunky old RENAME command?

Thats what I was thinking.

[Kerry]

Possible Alternative at the Command Line :
Command: -rename
Enter object type to rename
[Block/Dimstyle/LAyer/LType/Style/Tablestyle/Ucs/VIew/VPort]: la
Enter old layer name: xx1
Enter new layer name: xx2

[Dinosaur]

That was the only way to do it through r10 or r11.  The fancy dialog boxes didn't show up until r12.  There was even a shortened command name for it.
Any guesses what it was for a bonus?

[MP]

Are you talking the layer command, as in the ddl alias for ddlmodes?

[Dinosaur]

No, the alternate command name for "RENAME"

edit

thinking about it, it probably was one of the built in alias's instead of a real command.

[MP]

Ok, good thing I didn't post ddlmodes then. You mean ren then?

[Dinosaur]

Ok, good thing I didn't post ddlmodes then. You mean ren then?

Correct, I will donate to you whatever I won in helping guess question 15's answer.

[MP]

Ok, good thing I didn't post ddlmodes then. You mean ren then?

Correct, I will donate to you whatever I won in helping guess question 15's answer.

There's prizes? Adjusting scorecard.

I'll double it back to you: what was the utility that was the basis for the MS DOS's 'doskey' utility that gave one command line aliases (and a stack) at DOS?

/thread hijack.

[Dinosaur]

I used mrkeys and qkeys.  I don't know their heritage, but someone brought them in very early on.  I still have copies hidden away somewhere.

[Kerry]

akeys ??

[MP]

The original that I recall was called ... suitably enough ... ALIAS. IIRC it originated from PC Magazine but I cannot find any decent web reference. Somewhere I have it on a floppy with a TSR ascii chart and some other invaluable tools I used to load into a ram disk; oh those were the days. This would be very late 80's (guess).

[Dinosaur]

I would not be surprised if the guy that brought in ours had not written it himself.  He had written most of DCA's functions in lisp routines for r10 386 ca 1991.