Thanks Sergey.

Excluding the TRY/CATCH/ENDTRY, will that work in VFP6?

Can i expect users running W98, XP, ME, 2k, ... to have filesystemobject available?



>Hi Chris,
>
>I'm using WSH to do the same (VFP8).

>
>LPARAMETERS tcFileName, tcCase
>LOCAL oFso, lcFileName, loFile, llOk, lcNewName
>oFso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
>lcFileName = ALLTRIM(tcFileName)
>llOk = .T.
>TRY
>	loFile = oFso.GetFile(lcFileName)
>CATCH
>	llOk = .F.
>ENDTRY
>IF llOk
>	DO CASE
>	CASE UPPER(tcCase) = "L"
>		lcNewName = LOWER(loFile.Name)
>	CASE UPPER(tcCase) = "U"
>		lcNewName = UPPER(loFile.Name)
>	CASE UPPER(tcCase) = "P"
>		lcNewName = PROPER(loFile.Name)
>	OTHERWISE
>		llOk = .F.
>	ENDCASE
>	IF llOk
>		TRY
>			loFile.Name = lcNewName + ".TEMP"
>			loFile.Name = lcNewName
>		CATCH
>			llOk = .F.
>		ENDTRY
>		IF llOk AND loFile.Name <> lcNewName
>			llOk = .F.
>		ENDIF	
>	ENDIF	
>ENDIF
>
>RETURN llOk

>>I am using the following to create a batch file whose purpose is to force jpg filenames to lowercase (for ftp'ing to a unix webserver):
>>
>>

>>ERASE c:\lowercasenames.bat
>>cPath = "C:\temp\"
>>
>>ADIR(aFiles,"c:\temp\*.JPG")
>>IF TYPE("aFiles") = "C"
>>  FOR nCnt = 1 TO ALEN(aFiles,1)
>>    cText = "rename " + cPath + ALLTRIM(aFiles(nCnt,1)) +" " + LOWER(ALLTRIM(aFiles(nCnt,1)))+CHR(10)
>>    STRTOFILE(cText,"C:\lowercasenames.bat",.t.)
>>  ENDFOR
>>ENDIF
>>IF FILE("c:\lowercasenames.bat")
>>   RUN /N7 C:\lowercasenames.bat
>>ENDIF
>>

>>
>>The batch file looks like:
>>
>>

>>rename C:\temp\TEJAS1.JPG tejas1.jpg
>>rename C:\temp\TEJAS2.JPG tejas2.jpg
>>rename C:\temp\TEJAS3.JPG tejas3.jpg
>>rename C:\temp\TEJAS4.JPG tejas4.jpg
>>rename C:\temp\TEJAS5.JPG tejas5.jpg
>>
>>

>>
>>What you cant see in the bat file listing above is that there is a blank line at the end of the file... from the CHR(10).
>>
>>Running this batch file on a W2K box, it runs fine. Running it on a Win98 box, the last line is apparently a problem and no renaming takes place. I would think that each RENAME commandline is processed as it goes, but that does not appear to be the case. If i EDIT the bat file via the DOS prompt and remove the last line, save and run it, it runs fine. I am gunna strip out the last line, but why the difference between the different OS's?