Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bug in ARP Rename command
Message-ID: <1993@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 88 02:55:50 GMT
References: <3579@ece-csc.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article <3579@ece-csc.UUCP>, rss@ece-csc.UUCP writes:
> gives you the error message "Can't rename fubar as //fubar", which seems
> like a strong hint that "rename" is trying to add an inappropriate "/"
> character before invoking the system (DOS) Rename() function (or whatever
> the appropriate system call is.)

I ran into this problem in Browser. In the published version I wrote a fairly
complex routine to figure out when to add the slash. In the current working
version I "CurrentDir(destdir)" and do a "Rename(sourcefile, filename)" for
the case where the destination is a directory. To get the filename the best
way (because it gives you the real case) is to Examine it and pull the
fib_FileName out.
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