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HTML Rename!(TM) version 1.21
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 Parker & Associates
All rights reserved
WHAT DOES HTML RENAME! DO?
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HTML Rename!(TM) eliminates the problems encountered when moving files
between DOS/Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX file systems. By changing file
names (case, length, and invalid characters) and fixing links in HTML
code, HTML Rename! ensures that your files and Web pages will work on
any operating system. Using HTML Rename! before you transfer files (for
example, uploading a Web site to a UNIX server) saves you from needing
to repair mangled filenames, broken links, and extra or missing carriage
return characters in text files.
HTML Rename! assists Web site development by checking the consistency of
URL links and generating reports on local and external URLs. It
guarantees that your site will work on any operating system by enforcing
a file naming convention. HTML Rename! can automatically change every
filename to fit a new naming convention, or you can choose to
individually alter each invalid filename as HTML Rename! reviews it. Run
HTML Rename! before each Web site upload and never have another broken
link!
HTML RENAME!'S FEATURES
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* Targets DOS, Macintosh, UNIX, and other filesystems -- including ISO
9660 (the most universal naming structure on the planet)
* Reports and renames files whose names are invalid on a target system
* Automatically or interactively generates valid filenames
* Updates links in your HTML pages for renamed files
* Converts local links to relative or absolute URLs
* Forces URL links to be case consistent with filenames
* Alters file extensions such as HTML, JPEG, MPEG, & PING for the
DOS/Windows, Macintosh, or UNIX convention (and fixes the names in the
HTML code simultaneously)
* Reports missing and external links
* Reports files not referenced in a Web site (great for finding stray
graphics and old files no longer in use)
* Updates ASCII line ends for DOS/Windows, Macintosh, or UNIX format
* Works on a single directory or an entire directory tree
* Uses a clear, easy-to-follow, graphical wizard interface
WHAT PROBLEMS DOES HTML RENAME! SOLVE?
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1) Moving a Web Site to a Different System Can Break URL Links.
Typically, development of a Web site is done locally on a PC or
Macintosh and then uploaded to a server as the final "publishing" step.
If the server runs a different operating system than the local
development system, transferring the site to the server may break local
URL links.
One example of this is the strict filename upper and lower case
sensitivity in UNIX. If you have an image file named "Janine.gif" and
reference that file as <a href "janine.gif"> the image will work when
testing on Macintosh or Windows. On a UNIX server, however, you will
get a broken GIF because UNIX enforces stricter case sensitivity than
the Macintosh or Windows. HTML Rename! fixes this by changing the URL
link to <a href "Janine.gif">, matching the filename exactly.
Other examples are characters which can appear in filenames on one
system but not on another. For example, the filename "<Nov-96>.gif" is
valid on Macintosh and UNIX but not on Windows because of the greater-
than and less than "<>" characters. If you transfer a Web site
containing this file to an NT server, the links to this file will be
broken.
Yet another example is differing filename extensions. For HTML, JPEG,
MPEG, and PING files; Macintosh and UNIX require the filename extensions
"html", "jpeg", "mpeg", and "ping"; while Windows requires "htm", "jpg",
"mpg", and "png".
HTML Rename! fixes all of the above problems, and more!
2) Verifying Your Web Site's URL Links
You can also use HTML Rename! to verify that your site is squeaky-clean
with no broken links. HTML Rename! directly checks your local links and
generates a list of external URLs which you can check by loading the
list into your Web browser. At the same time, HTML Rename! can verify
that no links will get broken in the process of uploading your Web site
to your server.
3) ISO 9660 Filenames for CD-ROMs
Many CD-ROM burning programs give you the option to automatically
convert filenames to ISO 9660 format, a specification which guarantees
all operating systems will understand the filenames. HTML Rename! gives
you a finer granularity of control, allowing you to generate a report of
needed changes without renaming files, or to interactively rename files,
providing names which make more sense for your documents/data.
4) Graphical, Directory-based unix2dos, dos2unix, unix2mac, etc.
DOS/Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX all differ in their conventions for
line endings of ASCII text files. As a result, files created on one
system and read on another may appear as one very long line, or with
garbage characters at the beginning or end of every line. Most UNIX
systems have the dos2unix and unix2dos command line utilities to convert
files one at a time. HTML Rename! provides a graphical user interface
to perform these operations on entire directories of files in one pass.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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HTML Rename! for Windows:
486/33MHz or greater processor
8MB RAM
5MB of free disk space
Windows 95 or Windows/NT 3.51 or greater
HTML Rename! for Macintosh:
68020, 68030, or PowerPC
8MB RAM
5MB of free disk space
MacOS System 7 or greater (7.5 or greater recommended)
INSTALLATION
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No special installation is required. Simply extract the files from the
archive and HTML Rename! will be ready for use.
HTML Rename! is distributed either as a self-extracting archive
("renawNNN.exe" for Windows, "renamNNN.sea" for Macintosh) or as a
Windows zipped file ("renawNNN.zip") or Macintosh Stuffit file
("renamNNN.sit"), where "NNN" represents the version number. If you
have a self-extracting archive, simply double click on it to extract the
files. Otherwise launch your favorite application to unzip or unstuff
the archive. See below for the list of files in the archive.
PRICING OF HTML RENAME!
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HTML Rename! is shareware. As such, it is available for a free 60 day
evaluation period, after that the software will disable itself. If you
find HTML Rename! useful you must register and pay a registration fee as
follows:
HTML Rename! for Windows 95/NT: US$20 per user
HTML Rename! for Macintosh: US$20 per user
When your registration payment is received you will be sent a
registration key and be granted a license to have unlimited use of a
single copy of HTML Rename!.
A Site License costs US$500 (equal to 25 users) and covers all locations
for your organization within a 160 kilometer radius of your site (100
miles). One big advantage of a Site License is that you do not need to
keep track of how many people at your site are using the software. A
World-Wide License costs US$2000 and it covers all locations for your
organization on the planet earth. Site and World-Wide Licenses for HTML
Rename! for Windows or HTML Rename! for Macintosh must be purchased
separately.
HOW DO I REGISTER HTML RENAME!
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Registering HTML Rename! is fairly simple. Click the "Register..."
button in the initial Shareware Notice dialog. Then either click on
"Register online with a credit card..." to launch your browser and take
you to HTML Rename!'s online registration site, or click on "Register
via email, fax, or postal mail..." to launch the Register program.
Kagi handles payment processing for HTML Rename!, you will make your
payments out to them. See more information about Kagi below.
NOTE: It is important that you provide YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS during
registration. Parker & Associates uses your email address to generate
the registration key which grants you unlimited use of a single copy of
HTML Rename!. If you are ordering multiple copies or a Site or World-
wide License, Parker & Associates will contact you with information on
how to complete your registration.
REGISTERING ONLINE
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Currently, only credit and debit card transactions and payment via First
Virtual can be handled online. Click on "Register online with a credit
card..." from HTML Rename!'s registration dialog or point your browser
at "http://order.kagi.com/?NK&S" for a secure server or
"http://order.kagi.com/?NK" for a normal server.
Enter your name, your email address, and the number of single user
licenses you desire for each program you wish to purchase (or Site or
Word-Wide licenses). Click the "Submit" button to continue to the next
page and enter your credit card information for submission to Kagi.
REGISTERING WITH THE REGISTER PROGRAM
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Registration via the Register program allows payment by credit card,
check, cash, and some forms of digital payment and may be submitted via
email, fax, or "snail mail." Enter your name, your email address, and
the number of single user licenses you desire for each program you wish
to purchase (or Site or Word-Wide licenses). Save or Copy or Print the
data from the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi.
If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual, you can email or fax the
data to Kagi. Their email address is sales@kagi.com and their fax
number is +1 510 652-6589. You can either Copy the data from Register
and paste into the body of an email message or you can Save the data to
a file and you can attach that file to an email message. There is no
need to compress the data file, it's already pretty small. If you have
a fax modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax number.
Payments sent via email are processed within 3 to 4 days. You will
receive an email acknowledgment when it is processed. Payments sent via
fax take up to 10 days and if you provide a correct Internet email
address you will receive an email acknowledgment.
If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the data using
the Register application and send it to the address shown on the form,
which is:
Kagi
1442-A Walnut Street #392-NK
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
You can pay with a wide variety of cash from different countries but at
present if you pay via check, it must be a check drawn in US Dollars.
Kagi cannot accept checks in other currencies, the conversion rate for
non-USD checks is around USD 15 per check and that is just not
practical. If you have a purchasing department, you can enter all the
data into the Register program and then select Invoice as your payment
method. Print three copies of the form and send it to your accounts
payable people. You might want to highlight the line that mentions that
they must include a copy of the form with their payment.
Kagi can not invoice your company, you need to act on our behalf and
generate the invoice and handle all the paperwork on your end.
Please do not fax or email payment forms that indicate Cash, Check or
Invoice as the payment method. As far as we know, there is still no
technology to transfer physical objects via fax or email and without the
payment, the form cannot be processed. Payments send via postal mail
take time to reach Kagi and then up to 10 days for processing. Again,
if you include a correct email address, you will hear from Kagi when the
form is processed.
WHAT IS THE CURRENT VERSION OF HTML RENAME!
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Check "http://www.visiontec.com/rename" to download the latest version.
If you are a registered user of HTML Rename!, you will receive email
notifying you of new releases. Here is the current revision history:
HTML Rename! for Windows:
v1.00 27-Nov-96 Initial release
v1.10 10-Mar-97 Support for new tags, external text editor
v1.20 08-May-97 Relative or absolute URLs, ISO-8859-1 charset
v1.21 14-May-97 Fix relative URL substitution bug, base tags
HTML Rename! for Macintosh:
v1.00 27-Nov-96 Initial release
v1.10 10-Mar-97 Support for new tags, external text editor
v1.20 08-May-97 Relative or absolute URLs, ISO-8859-1 charset
v1.21 14-May-97 Fix relative URL substitution bug, base tags
See the "History.txt" file for specific changes in each release.
FILES IN THIS DISTRIBUTION
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HTML Rename! for Windows 95/NT:
Readme-Rename.txt -- This file
Rename!.exe -- HTML Rename! for Windows executable program
Register.exe -- Shareware registration program for HTML Rename!
Register.hlp -- Windows Help file for Register.exe
License.txt -- Software license agreement for this software
LocalReg.html -- Points to online registration page
File_id.diz -- Quick identifier with product and version info
History.txt -- Version history for what is new in each version
HTML Rename! for Macintosh:
Readme-Rename.txt -- This file
HTML Rename! -- HTML Rename! for Macintosh application
Register -- Shareware registration app for HTML Rename!
License.txt -- Software license agreement for this software
LocalReg.html -- Points to online registration page
History.txt -- Version history for what is new in each version
WHO DEVELOPED HTML RENAME!
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HTML Rename! was developed by Parker & Associates, P.O. Box 2707, San
Anselmo, CA 94979 (tparker@kagi.com). Terence M. Parker (Terry) founded
Parker & Associates in 1994 after 10 years of experience in Berkeley
software companies.
Terry's roles in software startups have included Vice President of
Engineering at Vividata, Inc. and principal designer of Caere's OmniPage
optical character recognition product for UNIX/Motif. His work has
included all aspects of software development and support, from initial
design through end-user support. This experience is all brought to bear
on HTML Rename!.
HTML Rename! was born when Ken Milburn, one of the authors of
"Converting Content for Web Publishing" called Terry, saying that he had
not been able to find a much-needed utility to rename files. Terry, who
has developed products for DOS, Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, etc., saw the
usefulness of such a utility and got a little carried away. The result
(together with insights from the authors of Converting Content for Web
Publishing) is HTML Rename! -- a sophisticated, professional program
carefully designed and tested, and ready for serious work.
To find out more about Terry and the authors of "Converting Content for
Web Publishing", check out the Web site "http://www.visiontec.com".
Last updated: 14-May-97
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