Re: Need help with Change-A-File 2.15 please

[tomk@pro-nsdapple.cts.com (Tom Kelly)]

In <33B5F3AD.22F7@swbell.net> Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> writes:

>Tom Kelly writes ...
>
>> 
>> I am trying to use Change-A-File 2.15. by Harold D. Portnoy
>> .... 
>> When I try to set the source or destination, I get the 
>> following error.
>> MLI ERROR $40
>> INVALID PATHNAME SYNTAX
>> 
>> My disk is /BLANK
>> It has one directory named TRYS
>> 
>> I have made the following attempts:
>> source     /
>> destination   /
>> 
>> ....
>> 
>> source    /BLANK/
>> destination    /BLANK/TRYS/
>> 
>> The result is always the same.
>> MLI ERROR $40
>> INVALID PATHNAME SYNTAX
>> .... What am I doing wrong?
>>
>
>     One guess is that the program wants you to enter an actual 
>file name (not just a prefix) for the Source and, perhaps, the 
>Destination.
>
>     You do not say what Change-A-File 2.15 is supposed to do. An 
>example of acceptable inputs might be ...
>
>
>Source /BLANK/NARF.TXT 
> (NARF.TXT is a file in BLANK's main directory.)
>
>Destination /BLANK/TRYS/NARF.00.TXT
> (NARF.00.TXT is the new copy of NARF.TXT; and, it is written to 
>the TRYS directory.)
>
>
>     There are all sorts of ways a program might handle filetype 
>changing. If Change-A-File 2.15 is supposed let you change 
>filetype, something like the following _may_ be correct ...
>
>Source /BLANK/NARF.TXT 
> (NARF.TXT is a file in BLANK's main directory.)
>
>Destination /BLANK/TRYS/NARF.00.BIN, T$06
> (NARF.TXT is written to the TRYS directory as a binary type file 
>named "NARF.00.BIN".)
>
>
>Rubywand


Thanks for the reply.  I'll post the program in the binaries.
That way folks can try and see if they can make it work.
I hope I am NOT just brain dead.   :-)
I am trying to go txt<>appleworks  both ways.
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