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From: act@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Andrew Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 New functions
Message-ID: <1991Jun23.222615.20419@csc.canberra.edu.au>
Date: 23 Jun 91 22:26:15 GMT
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In article <1991Jun22.051347.19165@newsserver.sfu.ca> shephard@newsserver.sfu.ca (Gordon Shephard) 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."
>
Firstly it's MS-Dos 5.0 (NOT 4.0).
Secondly we're not talking about the Rename command BUT the Rename function!!
ie int 21h.

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 Andrew Turner  act@csc.canberra.edu.au
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