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- From: cs_e445@ceres (Vlod Kalicun)
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- Subject: Re: File name truncations
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 15:23:21 GMT
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- : In article <1992Dec17.012616.27248@cs.uwp.edu>, ruffalom@cs.uwp.edu (Mike Ruffalo) writes:
- : >
- : > Does anyone know if there are any conventions on how one should go
- : >about renaming AmigaDOS files (that have longer file names) to MSDOS'able
- : >file names.
- : > The implimentation for this is going to be a mass file uploader
- : >for a BBS program and it would be nice to stick to something firendly.
- : > Thanks.
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- Yeah.. theres a program called dog.c which was posted to comp.sys.amiga.sources
- which does exactly what you want.
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- It's converts from long-short-long. ie. transfer of unix file to ami. via PC
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- Regards..
-
- Vlod
- -Amiga Advocate.
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