Re: what's III+ suffixes for use in organizing program

[Carl Distefano CLDistefano@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from ArtL7@xxxxxxxx Sun, 27 Jun 1999 14:59:51 EDT

=> Is this command done from the dos prompt, or from within Xywrite.
=> thanks, Art.
=> <<
=> At 04:20 AM 6/27/99 +0000, you wrote:
=> >Sorry, that command should be:
=> >REN *.* *.NEW

It's a DOS command. It can be issued from the DOS prompt as is, or
from the CMline, thus:

DOS /C REN *.* *.NEW

Before doing so, make sure you're logged onto the drive and
subdirectory you want to change. (This applies to the DOS command
line as well.) So, if the target dir were D:\MYDIR, you'd first issue
(from either command line):

D:
CD \MYDIR

Then the REName command. Keep in mind that this will change the
extensions on ALL files in the directory to the new extension, whether
they currently have an extension or not. You can rename a subset of
all files by changing the wildcard spec in the first argument; this
can be tricky, though -- you can get unexpected results if you don't
know what you're doing. Much easier to create a temporary directory,
copy or move the files you want to change to the temp dir, and issue
the REName command there.

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Carl Distefano
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