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- ChName
-
- Description
-
- Change long HPFS file names to FAT format and vice versa. Useful
- when copying files to or from diskettes.
-
- Usage
-
- [D:\] chname FILE ... [ /f /h /q ]
-
- /f HPFS to FAT (default)
- /h FAT to HPFS (ie. reverse what was done with /f)
- /q Quiet mode
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- ChName changes HPFS file names to FAT format or vice versa.
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- When changing HPFS names to FAT, the program first tries simply to
- truncate the name to the `????????.???' mask. Spaces are converted
- to underlines, and the first and the last dot-separated part are put
- together. For example,
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- "What really happened to Baby Jane.txt.Z" -> WHAT_REA.Z
-
- If there already is a file with the same name, a part of the result-
- ing name is substituted with a number, eg. `WHAT_RE0.Z'. Only as
- many letters are substituted as necessary--first one number is tried
- (0..9), then two numbers (00..99) and so on. Eventually a unique
- file name is very probably found.
-
- The long HPFS file name is saved to the `.LONGNAME' extended attrib-
- ute so that the name can later be restored with the `/h' switch, eg.
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- WHAT_REA.Z -> "What really happened to Baby Jane.txt.Z"
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- Known Bugs
-
- Spaces in file names cannot be handled from the command line, so the
- above example doesn't work like this:
-
- [D:\] chname "What really happened to Baby Jane.txt.Z"
-
- Because OS/2 seems to strip the quotes before the reach REXX, ChName
- gives a list of silly messages about files not found:
-
- ChName v1.0: File 'What' not found
- ChName v1.0: File 'really' not found
- ...
-
- But spaces are still allowed in file names: you can, of course, use
-
- [D:\] chname *.txt.Z
-
- and change the names of ALL the `.txt.Z' files.
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- Version and Copyrights
-
- ChName v1.0
- (C) SuperOscar Softwares, Tommi Nieminen
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