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From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Renaming DOS directories
Summary: oh?
Message-ID: <11859@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 88 14:50:40 GMT
References: <221@h-three.UUCP> <5631@cup.portal.com> <907@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <6015@cup.portal.com>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <6015@cup.portal.com>, Robert_C_Tellefson@cup.portal.com writes:
> 
> IE., directories can not be renamed using the Change
> Directory Entry function (56h).
> 

That's true only of DOS 2.x.  Without ever mentioning it (even in the manual)
Microsoft changed function 56h so it can, and does, rename directories in
DOS 3.x.

We call this secret, silent progress.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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