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- HTML Rename!(TM) version 2.00
- Copyright (c) 1996-2000 Expandable Language
- All rights reserved
-
-
- WHAT DOES HTML RENAME! DO?
- --------------------------
- HTML Rename!(R) 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
- -----------------------
- * 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
- * Removes 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?
- --------------------------------------
-
- 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) Removes Orphan Files
-
- Web site development involves adjustments: graphics are modified and
- discarded, a file is saved aside while testing new text or a new layout,
- etc. After a while, your site is littered with "orphans"--files that
- are no longer used in the web site. HTML Rename! can identify and
- remove these orphan files, making your local directory clean so that
- you can upload everything without wasting space on your server.
-
-
- 5) 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
- -------------------
-
- HTML Rename! for Windows:
- 486/33MHz or greater processor
- 8MB RAM
- 5MB of free disk space
- Windows 95/95/NT/2000 (no NT 3.x)
-
- HTML Rename! for Power Macintosh:
- Any PowerPC processor
- 8MB RAM
- 5MB of free disk space
- MacOS System 7 or greater (7.5 or greater recommended)
-
-
- INSTALLATION
- ------------
- 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 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.
-
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- PRICING OF HTML RENAME!
- -----------------------
- HTML Rename! is shareware. As such, it is available for a free 30 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! 2.x for Windows 95/NT: US$29 per user
- HTML Rename! 2.x for Macintosh: US$29 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$750 (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$3000 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!
- ------------------------------
- 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. Expandable Language 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, Expandable Language will contact you with information on
- how to complete your registration.
-
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- REGISTERING ONLINE
- ------------------
- 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
- -------------------------------------
- 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, 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 is 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, PMB 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.
-
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- WHAT IS THE CURRENT VERSION OF HTML RENAME!
- -------------------------------------------
- Check "http://www.xlanguage.com" 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
- v1.22 04-Mar-00 Fix CR/LF conversion bug, update address information
- v2.00 31-Aug-00 Many new features: remove orphans, single-dialog interface
-
- 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
- v1.22 04-Mar-00 Fix CR/LF conversion bug, update address information
- v2.00 31-Aug-00 Many new features: remove orphans, single-dialog interface
-
- See the "History.txt" file for specific changes in each release.
-
-
- FILES IN THIS DISTRIBUTION
- --------------------------
- HTML Rename! for Windows 95/NT:
- Readme-Rename.txt -- This file
- HRename.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!
- --------------------------
- HTML Rename! was developed by Expandable Language, PMB 191,
- 2238B South Shore Center, Alameda, CA 94501 (info@xlanguage.com).
- Terence M. Parker (Terry) founded Expandable Language (formerly
- 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.
-
-
- Last updated: 31-Aug-2000
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