mkmanifest(1)

NAME
     mkmanifest - create a shell script to restore Unix filenames

SYNOPSIS
     mkmanifest unix-file ...

DESCRIPTION
     Mkmanifest creates a shell script that will aid  in  the  restoration  of
     Unix  filenames  that  got  clobbered by the MSDOS filename restrictions.
     MSDOS  filenames  are  restricted  to  8  character  names,  3  character
     extensions, upper case only, no device names, and no illegal characters.

     The mkmanifest program is compatible with the methods used in pcomm, arc,
     and  mtools  to  change  perfectly  good  Unix filenames to fit the MSDOS
     restrictions.

EXAMPLE
     You want to copy the following Unix files to a MSDOS diskette (using  the
     mcopy command).

           very_long_name
           2.many.dots
           illegal:
           good.c
           prn.dev
           Capital

     Mcopy will convert the names to:

           very_lon
           2xmany.dot
           illegalx
           good.c
           xprn.dev
           capital

     The command:

     mkmanifest very_long_name 2.many.dots illegal: good.c prn.dev Capital

     would produce the following:

           mv very_lon very_long_name
           mv 2xmany.dot 2.many.dots
           mv illegalx illegal:
           mv xprn.dev prn.dev
           mv capital Capital



     Notice that "good.c" did not require any conversion, so it did not appear
     in the output.

     Suppose I've copied these files from the diskette to another Unix system,
     and  I  now  want  the files back to their original names.  If the output
     from mkmanifest was sent along with those files,  it  could  be  used  to
     convert the filenames by running it as a shell script.

BUGS
     The short names generated by mkmanifest follow the old  convention  (from
     mtools-2.0.7) and not the one from Windows 95 and mtools-3.0.

SEE ALSO
     mtools(1).