Some senseless babbling from Peter Hansen to Mike Ruskai on 07-22-94  18:32...

 PH> Forgive me for not taking the time to answer your questions fully,
 PH> but something just popped out at me as I zipped past and I'll throw it
 PH> back at you, in case it will help...

 PH> In a message on 07-20-94, Mike Ruskai said to All:
 
 MR>'cvtico' current_icon 'temp.ico'
 MR>'del' current_icon
 MR>'ren temp.ico' current_icon '>>' logfile
 
 MR>Later, I replaced the DEL with SysFileDelete to clean up a bit, but the
 MR> problem I ran into was that CMD.EXE puked.  Apparently it does not
 MR>accept a full pathname as the second argument.  
 PH> :
 PH> 'DEL' and SysFileDelete() should both have no problem with a full
 PH> pathname, but 'RENAME' requires a simple filename as the second
 PH> argument, not a full pathname.  Maybe you were mixing up the error
 PH> messages from the 'ren temp...' line with the previous line that tries
 PH> to delete things. 

No, the error was from renaming.  When using SysFileTree to extract certain 
files from a directory, the values parsed from the data queue are full path 
names, such as C:\ICONS\EXAMPLE.ICO.  When trying to rename the temp.ico to 
this file name, CMD.EXE's REN command pukes.  What I need to know is if 
there is a way I can strip the path from the filenames parsed from the data 
queue of SysFileTree.

 MR>Obviously, copying and deleting is considerably slower than renaming
 MR>with high volumes.
 PH> :
 PH> Ahh, seems to me you really want to use the 'MOVE' command instead of
 PH> 'RENAME'.  If you need to move between drives you have to copy/delete.

No again.  I do not need to move the files.  I need to rename the file, but 
the variable used as the second argument for the REN command contains a 
pathname, not just a a file name. 

Thanks anyway.

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