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Name

       mkmanifest - makes list of file names and their DOS 8+3 equivalent

Note of warning

       This  manpage  has  been  automatically  generated  from  mtools's  texinfo documentation, and may not be
       entirely accurate or complete.  See the end of this man page for details.

Description

       The mkmanifest command is used to create a shell script (packing list) to  restore  Unix  filenames.  Its
       syntax is:

       mkmanifest [ files ]

       Mkmanifest  creates  a  shell script that aids in the restoration of Unix filenames that got clobbered by
       the MS-DOS filename restrictions.  MS-DOS filenames are restricted to  8  character  names,  3  character
       extensions, upper case only, no device names, and no illegal characters.

       The  mkmanifest program is compatible with the methods used in pcomm, arc, and mtools to change perfectly
       good Unix filenames to fit the MS-DOS restrictions. This command is only  useful  if  the  target  system
       which will read the diskette cannot handle VFAT long names.

Example

       You want to copy the following Unix files to a MS-DOS diskette (using the mcopy command).

            very_long_name
            2.many.dots
            illegal:
            good.c
            prn.dev
            Capital

       ASCII converts the names to:

            very_lon
            2xmany.dot
            illegalx
            good.c
            xprn.dev
            capital

       The command:

          mkmanifest very_long_name 2.many.dots illegal: good.c prn.dev Capital >manifest

       would produce the following:

            mv very_lon very_long_name
            mv 2xmany.dot 2.many.dots
            mv illegalx illegal:
            mv xprn.dev prn.dev
            mv capital Capital

       Notice that "good.c" did not require any conversion, so it did not appear in the output.

       Suppose  I've  copied these files from the diskette to another Unix system, and I now want the files back
       to their original names.  If the file "manifest" (the output captured above) was sent  along  with  those
       files, it could be used to convert the filenames.

Bugs

       The  short  names  generated  by mkmanifest follow the old convention (from mtools-2.0.7) and not the one
       from Windows 95 and mtools-3.0.

See Also

       Mtools' texinfo doc

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                     ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi

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                     ./configure; make html

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