

                                THE NAMEGAME


Just a little utility I whipped up due to neccessity. Oh yes, neccessity
IS the mother of invention. Long live the Spirit of Zappa!

This NAMEGAME.EXEcutable is a small file with a tremendously ugly interface.
We did not take the time to do a fancy field window full of vibrating
colours. We did not add our own company FLC logo. We didn't even put a 
measly little border around the boring white text. We simply threw this
numb piece of code together to solve a problem we were having one day.
We kept it small, and it could have been smaller but, we did not spend a
great deal of time on it. Okay Okay, so whaz zit doooo?

This utility will RENAME sequential TARGA or GIF files. IT WILL NOT CONVERT
from one graphic file format to another. It can change the name of the file
PREFIX, and/or the sequential frame number.

EXAMPLE:

SWING0000.TGA can be changed to ROCK0000.tga

SWING0000.GIF can be changed to ROCK0000.GIF etc.

SWING0200.TGA thru SWING0900.TGA can be canged to
SWING0000.TGA thru SWING0700.TGA or ROCK0000.TGA thru ROCK0700.TGA

Get the image? Simple and handy.

 
                          RULES RULES RULES


This EXEcutable MUST be in the SAME DIRECTORY of the FILES to be CHANGED.

You WILL NEED TO KNOW ahead of time EXACTLY HOW MANY FILES there are 
and what the name of the FIRST file is, including the starting number.

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF FILES IS VERY IMPORTANT, IF YOU MISS THE TOTAL
COUNT, THE PROGRAM WILL MISS IT TOO!

THERE IS NOT ANY ERROR CHECKING INCLUDED IN THIS UTILITY.

ALL files to be changed must have a FOUR LETTER PREFIX and they MUST ALL
BE THE SAME PREFIX.

You can change the frame number and or the four letter prefix to any
frame number or four letter prefix . Valid numbers are 0000 to 9999

                  I think that is all of the rules.


WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING PERIOD!!! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. PERIOD!!!



Why this utility?

Tell ya why,

   I had a segment of sequential files  named BOOK0200.TGA thru BOOK0359.TGA
and I tried to run a VLAN utility (TURBOTGA, a QUICKPASS UTIL) but it would
not (or I could not) get it to work if the sequential filename did not start 
with the frame number 0000. I was not about to rename 160 files manualy.  
Hence, this utility was born. I had another use as well, when running the
wildcard feature in VIDEO POST R2, if there are other filenames remotely close
(prefix) to the wildcard you get a nice little "invalid file format" messege.

Well, hope this util comes in handy for someone. It sure helps us out.

The file is basically free, but uh, if ya wanna donate, send checks,
moneyorders, new blank SVHS tapes, meshes, maps, farmwork or whatever to:

Crystal Cave Animagix
103 Barr Street
Carterville, Il.
               62918

                             Sincerely,
                                          Merlin G. Farmer

Voice line (618) 985-8154  CTS

PS. We do not consider ourselves to be accomplised programmers, 
    so don't ask for more. We'd rather animate (g)


We are however, looking for animation related work, if ya need someone
give us a buzz.

Since we are not in the market of programming, we have a new buzzword for
programs written by us (and there are several) we call it NOWARE. Because
we will never get rich, never get famous and probably never get nowhere with
our programming skills, therefore,
                                  We are not responsible for trees
                                  falling on your car,

                                  "Everybody Knows This Is NOWARE"
                                                     Neil Young





