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From: shephard@newsserver.sfu.ca (Gordon Shephard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 New functions
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.051347.19165@newsserver.sfu.ca>
Date: 22 Jun 91 05:13:47 GMT
References: <3o2s411w164w@toy.uucp> <1991Jun21.010929.10222@csc.canberra.edu.au>
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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In <1991Jun21.010929.10222@csc.canberra.edu.au> act@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Andrew Turner) writes:

>fn 56h Rename files will now permit renaming directories. It shuffles the 
>dir name space on the disk to fit longer/shorter names in.

Sigh.  And on Page 120 of the MS-Dos 4.0 User's Guide and Reference:
 
 "The rename command, which you use to rename file, cannot be used to
 rename directories.  Instead, you use a combination of the xcopy, del,
 and rd commands to rename a directory."

An example of one comitte not talking to another?

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