Posted by Lars on 25, 2001 at 6:01 PM:
In Reply to: Here's how to easily make .NMS files !!!!!!!! posted by ferris on 22, 2001 at 12:08 PM:
If anyone's interested I've created a Windows-program that will create NMS-files for all kinds of files. Originally I wrote it to create NMS-files from the MP3-tags to use with the Dos MP3-player Damp, but it was just a small modification to make it create NMS-files for other files as well. E-mail me if you're interested.
: when in windows, go to a dos prompt.
: go to the rom directory of the files you want to make a .nms file for
: type dir >one.txt and hit enter. this will create a file one.txt with all of the long dos names of the files.
: then, reboot your machine in pure DOS (hit F8 in win95 to choose dos)
: do the same thing as above - go to the directory with the roms, type dir >two.txt this will create a file with all of the SHORT dos file names.
: then, use microsoft excel and edit the two files - isolate the long names to one column and isolate the short file names to another column (by importing as space delimited or fixed width - play with it to get it right
: then use the excel command 'concatenate' like this
: =concatenate(A1,B1,C1)
: where in column A you have the long names, column B you put the character | and in column C you have the short names.
: copy the new column over to another column and select 'paste special' and choose 'values'
: delete all but this column and save it as a text file.
: Enjoy.....