Re: Change File name case

Thanks for the response Randy, That is what I ended up doing. I still have
a few NT PC floating around. Dan...

"Randy Birch" <rgb_removethis@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:W--dnY5jtsE04knfRVn-ig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> As I recall with OS versions prior to XP, in order to change the case of
> an
> existing filename when not changing the filename itself you had to name
> the
> file to a new name, then back to the name you want. Using explorer I used
> to append an x to the name, change the case, and rename back. AFAIK XP is
> the only one that will let you rename a file to the same name just
> changing
> the case.
>
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> "Fz" <formulazz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:42d4125e$0$123$143e8eca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> : Hi all,
> :
> :
> :
> : About 6 months ago I wrote a function to change the case of files names
> in
> a
> : directory. Not thinking to hard I used the "name" statement to change
> the
> : case, for example 'NAME c:\FILENAME.TXT as c:\filename.txt'. This
> worked
> : fine on my pc (WinXP). At the time I thought it was odd that it allowed
> me
> : to do this, but I was busy and continued on with out further testing
> this.
> : Well the program was rolled out today and the user got error 58, File
> : already exists, this is what I thought I should have got on my PC. I
> : quickly put a work around in place, by rename the file to a temporary
> name
> : and then back to the original name with the proper case for the file
> name.
> :
> :
> :
> : Is there a better solution than this? Maybe an API that will handle the
> name
> : change better?
> :
> :
> :
> : Thanks You, Dan...
> :
> :
> :
> :
>



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