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NAME

6       mkmanifest - create a shell script to restore Unix filenames
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SYNOPSIS

9       mkmanifest [ files ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       Mkmanifest  creates  a shell script that will aid in the restoration of
13       Unix filenames that got clobbered by the MSDOS  filename  restrictions.
14       MSDOS filenames are restricted to 8 character names, 3 character exten‐
15       sions, upper case only, no device names, and no illegal characters.
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17       The mkmanifest program is compatible with the methods  used  in  pcomm,
18       arc,  and  mtools  to  change  perfectly good Unix filenames to fit the
19       MSDOS restrictions.
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EXAMPLE

22       I want to copy the following Unix files to a MSDOS diskette (using  the
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25            very_long_name
26            2.many.dots
27            illegal:
28            good.c
29            prn.dev
30            Capital
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32       Mcopy will convert the names to:
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35            2xmany.dot
36            illegalx
37            good.c
38            xprn.dev
39            capital
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43       mkmanifest very_long_name 2.many.dots illegal: good.c prn.dev Capital >
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48            mv very_lon very_long_name
49            mv 2xmany.dot 2.many.dots
50            mv illegalx illegal:
51            mv xprn.dev prn.dev
52            mv capital Capital
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54       Notice that "good.c" did not require any  conversion,  so  it  did  not
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57       Suppose  I've copied these files from the diskette to another Unix sys‐
58       tem, and I now want the files back to their  original  names.   If  the
59       file  "manifest"  (the output captured above) was sent along with those
60       files, it could be used to convert the filenames.
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SEE ALSO

63       arc(1), pcomm(1), mtools(1)
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