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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!newcastle.ac.uk!newton!n031r
  2. From: S.N.Owen@newcastle.ac.uk (Si Owen)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: File name truncations
  5. Message-ID: <BzGD9L.Dtq@newcastle.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 18 Dec 92 11:29:45 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec17.012616.27248@cs.uwp.edu>
  8. Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU.
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  13. In article <1992Dec17.012616.27248@cs.uwp.edu>, ruffalom@cs.uwp.edu (Mike Ruffalo) writes:
  14. >
  15. >    Does anyone know if there are any conventions on how one should go
  16. >about renaming AmigaDOS files (that have longer file names) to MSDOS'able
  17. >file names.
  18. >    The implimentation for this is going to be a mass file uploader
  19. >for a BBS program and it would be nice to stick to something firendly.
  20. >    Thanks.
  21. >
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  24. >            PANIC NOW AVOID THE RUSH!
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  26.  
  27.  Have a look in the source for MSH - it has to do just what you need. Even if
  28.  you can't use the code in there, you'll learn enough to write your own.
  29.  
  30.  Si
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  33.  A500 ///    Simon Owen                        + Intelligence isn't to make no
  34.  __  ///     S.N.Owen@newcastle.ac.uk          + mistakes,  but to see  how to
  35.  \\\///                                        + make them good.
  36.   \XX/       University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne +           
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