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- Newsgroups: in.pc,comp.os.msdos.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jenk
- From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
- Subject: Re: Missing character questions....
- Message-ID: <1992Sep07.061610.6582@microsoft.com>
- Date: 07 Sep 92 06:16:10 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <Bu0CD5.5ry@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <Bu0CD5.5ry@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> rcbaker@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Bob Baker) writes:
- >While working on converting some VERY old DOS files at work, we've
- >discovered an interesting dilemma. When we do a directory listing of
- >the files, we see things like:
- >
- >H FRAME TXT 09-01-84 etc., etc.
- >S H HOUS TXT 09-01-84
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- Spaces within DOS filenames ain't officially okay. You can fix
- this by renaming the files. for example:
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- ren h?frame.txt hiframe.txt
- ren s?h?hous.txt s_h_hous.txt
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- subdirectories can be renamed using qbasic (dos 5) or gwbasic
- (or basica or whatever). Or using Norton's excellent DiskEdit
- utility.
-
- -jen
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