Name
    mkmanifest - makes list of file names and their DOS 8+3 equivalent

Note of warning
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    documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete.  See the
    end of this man page for details.

Description
    The mkmanifest command is used to create a shell script (packing list)
    to restore Unix filenames. Its syntax is:

    mkmanifest [ files ]

    Mkmanifest creates a shell script that aids in the restoration of Unix
    filenames that got clobbered by the MS-DOS filename restrictions. MS-
    DOS filenames are restricted to 8 character names, 3 character exten-
    sions, 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 MS-
    DOS restrictions. This  command is only useful if the target system
    which will read the diskette cannot handle vfat long names.

Example
    You want to copy the following Unix files to a MS-DOS diskette (using
    the mcopy command).

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

    Mcopy converts 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 >manifest

    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 sys-
    tem, and I now want the files back to their original names. If the
    file "manifest" (the output captured above) was sent along with  those
    files, it could be used to convert the filenames.

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' texinfo doc

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