Subj : Re: BC++5.02 16bits application and folders
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "Dridri" <dridri86@yahoo.fr>
Date : Thu Mar 04 2004 01:12 pm

Thanks for your advice

I'm not yet a pro with bc++

Can you give me some kind of example?

Thanks again


"Sebastian Ledesma" <labo(no_sp@m)solidyne1.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:403fdb1d@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Yes, I assumed he (Dridri) was referencing to a Win16 app., also the
> functions allows to rename a file, but not to rename a directory.
> In such case I suggest to create a 32 bit program and execute it (the
> directory name can be passed in a temp file).
>
> Saludos
> Sebastian
>
> "Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" <dont_email_me@bitbuc.ket> escribió en el mensaje
> news:403fc39d@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > Interrupt 0x21, function 0x7156 is a Windows 95 function for renaming a
> > file.  It is not a DOS function.  The DOS functionality built into
Windows
> > 95 supports it but MSDOS does not support it.  The MSDOS file system
does
> > not support long file names.  The 12 and 16 bit file attribute table,
FAT,
> > used by MSDOS do not have the bits which are used as continuation flags
> for
> > putting the remainder of the file names into subsequent FAT entries.
That
> > code may run on a machine with 32 bit Windows 95 installed but it will
not
> > work with an MSDOS machine.
> >
> > .  Ed
> >
> > > Sebastian Ledesma wrote in message
> > > news:403fa4e0$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > >
> > > Try this, I used it for an old 16bit that runs with other 32bits
> > > apps, some time ago I migrated this application to
> > > Win32, but this function should work right now:
> > >
> > > Saludos
> > > Sebastian
> > >
> > > PS: Sorry for a litle long post.
> > >
> > > #include <windows.h>
> > > #include "longname.h"
> > > #include <stdio.h>
> > > #include <dos.h>
> > > #include <string.h>
> > >
> > > #define CF 1
> > >
> > > int winRename(const char _FAR *oldname, const char _FAR *newname) {
> > > #if defined WIN32
> > >  return MoveFile(oldname, newname);
> > > #else
> > >  struct REGPACK regs;
> > >  regs.r_ax = 0x7156;
> > >    regs.r_ds = FP_SEG(oldname);
> > >    regs.r_dx = FP_OFF(oldname);
> > >    regs.r_es = FP_SEG(newname);
> > >    regs.r_di = FP_OFF(newname);
> > >    intr(0x21, &regs);
> > >    if (regs.r_flags & CF)
> > >     return regs.r_ax;
> > >    return 0;
> > > #endif
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > > BOOL GetDosName(char *longname, char *shortname) {
> > >    WIN32_FIND_DATA fd;
> > >    HANDLE hfind;
> > >
> > >    hfind = FindFirstFile(longname, &fd);
> > >    if (hfind == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
> > >     return FALSE;
> > >
> > >    if (strlen(fd.cAlternateFileName) > 0)
> > >   strcpy(shortname, fd.cAlternateFileName);
> > >    else
> > >     strcpy(shortname, fd.cFileName);
> > >    FindClose(hfind);
> > >    return TRUE;
> > > }
> > >
> > > BOOL GetWindowsName(char *shortname, char *longname) {
> > >    WIN32_FIND_DATA fd;
> > >    HANDLE hfind;
> > >
> > >    hfind = FindFirstFile(shortname, &fd);
> > >    if (hfind == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
> > >     return FALSE;
> > >
> > >  strcpy(longname, fd.cFileName);
> > >    FindClose(hfind);
> > >    return TRUE;
> > > }
> >
> >
>
>

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