Hi, I got an urgent request to make my homepage 8.3 name compatible. So I would have to upload lbacache-01may2004.zip as lb040501.zip (which is YYMMDD order, nice for sorting but completely unreadable to normal Germans).
The claim is that (paraphrasing) "having to use a web browser to download non-8.3-filename and save it as 8.3 filename on disk would be contradictory to GPL". I hope that even web browsers for DOS are able to use URLs which are longer than 8.3? In that case, I assume that it is possible to download the file under every 8.3 filename that the user wants. For extra convenience, I wrote a shell script which helps to mass-rename files: echo mmv lbacache-\*\?\?\?20\*.zip lb\#5\#2\#4\#1.zip Uhm, sorry, must be: mmv lbacache-\*\?\?\?20\*.zip lb\#5\#2\#4\#1.zip ;-). Whatever. Sample result: Before -> lbacache-01apr2003.zip lbacache-10jun2003.zip lbacache-20sep2003.zip After -> lb03ar01.zip lb03jn10.zip lb03sp20.zip You could make that a bit more sophisticated to replace the months by numerical versions. Have fun. If you are REALLY downloading my software under DOS, and your browser is unable to process non-8.3 URLs, let me know. Doh. NAME mmv - move/copy/append/link multiple files by wildcard patterns SYNOPSIS mmv [-m|x|r|c|o|a|l|s] [-h] [-d|p] [-g|t] [-v|n] [from to] ... Eric ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel