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

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

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