Hi David, good idea.

I just opened one of them, in Word 97, and can see the long file name and type in the "title" property.

My client has something like 10,000 file in this format! So just manually opening it and saving it will not work. I need to write a process to automate it...guess it's time to learn Visual Basic? I was hoping that I could handle it in VFP - generate an exe, etc....any suggestions/ideas?

J

>Jill,
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>Any chance you can open the doc in Word or a newer flavor of WordPerfect and have it do the work for you?
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>>DOS? yep...I am trying to rename some sequentially named (0016001.PLD, 0016002.PLD, etc.) WP 5.1 DOS files, using WP's internal "long file name" and "type". Does anyone know how to identify the long file name w/in the file?
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>>I've been able to locate it in various files, but they are not stored in a consistant location.
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>>I've posted a message on the corelsupport.other news group, but it doesn't look like it's accessed very often - any other suggestions about where to find out this information?