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At 10:55 4/22/98 -0400, Jeffrey Waters wrote:
>I am trying to install 5.0 to a laptop via FTP, I have purchased a copy
from
>RedHat so I have the CD and all the other good stuff. Here is my
>problem, my FTP server (no funny faces now) is a NT 4.0 box with FTP
>link to the cd-drive.
I had this problem installing via FTP from a Win95 machine. The problem I
had was that the CD-ROM only reported 8.3 filenames. I copied the files to
the hard disk and wrote a qBASIC script that read the TRANS.TBL files and
converted the filenames to long filenames. I did it quick-n-dirty so I had
to run it in each directory; it doesn't recurse subdirectories.
Some of the "files" are actiually links. These are shown in the TRANS.TBL
files. I copied the real file over the link, using the long filename.
Then I ran the install and it worked fine. I'll flesh out the qBASIC script
into something more automatic Real Soon Now ;-) All the required info is
in the TRANS.TBL files.
Here's the qBASIC script:
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CLS
infile$ = "trans.tbl"
OPEN infile$ FOR INPUT AS #1
WHILE NOT EOF(1)
LINE INPUT #1, a$
IF LEN(a$) > 20 AND LEFT$(a$, 1) = "F" THEN
filelen% = INSTR(a$, ";") - 3
shortfile$ = MID$(a$, 3, filelen%)
longfile$ = MID$(a$, 38, LEN(a$))
IF INSTR(longfile$, " ") = 0 THEN
PRINT "Renaming "; shortfile$; " to "; longfile$
SHELL "ren " + shortfile$ + " " + longfile$
ELSE
PRINT "Longfile: "; longfile$; " :"
END IF
END IF
WEND
CLOSE #1
PRINT "Ren.bas Complete"
SYSTEM
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Tony
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