At 02:10 AM 12/27/00 -0800 Rita wrote:
>I DL a song from Napster and the title is the entire length of the
>screen area. When I attempt to right click to rename, nothing happens.
>I cannot shorten it. Is there a hot hey for that function besides m or
>am I stuck with the long name. If I go to file, I cannot open it.
>Nada, nothing works.
>
>Rita
G:\home\jay>ren /?
Renames a file or files.
RENAME [drive:][path]filename1 filename2.
REN [drive:][path]filename1 filename2.
use ren with wildcards * like this
ren abc*143.mp? newname.mp3
Where 143 is unique to that file in that directory.
or you could use xcopy and then delete the file with the long name also using "*". I
have seen a lot of people have problems with filenames longer than 15 characters.
The filename rules are
A filename can contain up to 255 characters, including spaces. But, it cannot contain
any of the following characters: \ / : * ? " < > |
However, I see no reason to name a file with more than 15 characters and do not know
why people do this.
/jay
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