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from: Jasen Betts
date: 1998-04-16 00:00:00
subject: uppercase directories

From: Jasen Betts 
Subject: uppercase directories
Date: 1998/04/16
Message-ID: #1/1
Distribution: fido
Organization: CSS Brisbane, Qld, Australia. (61-7-3367-3890)
Newsgroups: fido.4dos


VB>  JB> global for /ad x in (*.*) do ren %X /S %@upper[%x]
VB>  JB> global for /a-d x in (*.*) do ren %X %@lower[%x]
VB>
VB> Now, I hadn't thought of that. Although that may cause probs with win95
VB> if it expects certain files to be in a certain case.


filenaes aren't case sensitive, if it tries to open SYSTEM\foo.DAT and the
file's actually called System\FOO.dat it'll still work.
(they tell me you need /I after global)

VB> I thought there may be a 4dos toggle switch to do this sort of thing,
VB> so that it displays as per previous versions running under DOS 6.22.

/X will go "back" to the old way (but you won't see LFNs)
                        

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