Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?

Paul news Dec 2017 11:01:28 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

Can I use é in 8.3 ? Probably not :-) They "hadn't invented
foreigners yet", when they did 8.3 :-)

This might surprise you to learn then...

8.3 will use 'extended ascii' aside from a couple. [g] And, even those,
as long as they aren't used as the first character *can* be used.
AFAIK, You can do the same with LFN based names. How do I know this?
Personal experience. I've done it. Even went so far as to do something
very sneaky and wrote a tiny program that would not only rename
folders/files to 8.3 extended ascii, but occasionally play with the
hidden/system bit settings for them as well. It did a fairly good job
of simulating a 'hard disk crash' to the untrained eye.

As people aren't used to seeing filenames that have names created with
characters that aren't visible on their keyboards. Most aren't anyway.
At one point, it even kept nosy people out of folders. Until win9x
modified the file manager and would go right in. lol. good times, I
tell you.





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