Hi, I got an urgent request to make my homepage 8.3 name
compatible. So I would have to upload lbacache-01may2004.zip
as lb040501.zip (which is YYMMDD order, nice for sorting but
completely unreadable to normal Germans).
The claim is that (paraphrasing) "having to use a web browser
to download non-8.3-filename and save it as 8.3 filename on
disk would be contradictory to GPL".
I hope that even web browsers for DOS are able to use URLs
which are longer than 8.3? In that case, I assume that it
is possible to download the file under every 8.3 filename
that the user wants.
For extra convenience, I wrote a shell script which helps to
mass-rename files:
echo mmv lbacache-\*\?\?\?20\*.zip lb\#5\#2\#4\#1.zip
Uhm, sorry, must be:
mmv lbacache-\*\?\?\?20\*.zip lb\#5\#2\#4\#1.zip
;-). Whatever. Sample result: Before ->
lbacache-01apr2003.zip lbacache-10jun2003.zip lbacache-20sep2003.zip
After ->
lb03ar01.zip lb03jn10.zip lb03sp20.zip
You could make that a bit more sophisticated to replace the months by
numerical versions.
Have fun.
If you are REALLY downloading my software under DOS, and your browser
is unable to process non-8.3 URLs, let me know. Doh.
NAME
mmv - move/copy/append/link multiple files by wildcard
patterns
SYNOPSIS
mmv [-m|x|r|c|o|a|l|s] [-h] [-d|p] [-g|t] [-v|n] [from to]
...
Eric
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