On 27 May 2007 at 12:49, Jules Richardson wrote:
I wonder if a rename forces the batch interpreter to
close any reference to
the source file anyway?
That's my hope, but there's no guarantee of that.
COMMAND.COM could
just keep opening new handles leaving the old ones open.
Are you stuck using MSDOS? e.g. 4DOS has a much better
batch interpreter from
what I remember and might not be crippled in the same way.
I'm using DOS 7.01 (or something like it that hosts Win98, but I'm
not running Windows) and using DOSLFN to support long file names.
Does 4DOS support long file name references?
I'd like to see a
COMMAND.COM with lfn support and some of the handy
batch extensions of Win2K, such as nested FORs.
Cheers,
Chuck