command line help

[Roni]

i've been using batch files with NESASM to make things easier for me. what would be really great is if i knew of a command which would enable me to create a file with the "Author" detail in it's properties already set to something. does such a command exist?

[tepples]

Which operating system has such "properties"? It's not Mac OS X; Macs generally call it "Get Info" and not "Properties". Is it Windows Vista, Windows XP, or something else?

[Roni]

i mean Windows file properties
like where it says "date modified" , "author", "track number", etc.
i believe it might be called "metadata"
i might be wrong, though

it would greatly assist in sorting ROMs that i wrote from all the other ROMs in the same folder

[tepples]

i mean Windows file properties
like where it says "date modified" , "author", "track number", etc.
i believe it might be called "metadata"
i might be wrong, though

Oh, those. As far as I can tell, the "summary" tab of Windows XP's file properties window is stored in an NTFS alternate data stream. These won't get preserved when you send the file through the Internet or put it on a FAT-formatted drive such as a USB or SD memory card.

On my hard disk, roms I wrote are in E:\nesdev\%projectname%, and other roms are in E:\games\nes.

[Roni]

so when i compile my asm source code using NESASM, there's no way to crank the NES file out with metadata already attatched to it?

[SecretServiceDude]

Have you taken a look at the Win32 function SetFileTime()?

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724933(VS.85).aspx

Sorry for not including a direct link, but the parentheses in the URL mess up the [url] tags.

Anyhow, you could write a simple Win32 console application that uses SetFileTime() to adjust the "date modified" field, then call that application from your batch file.

[tepples]

You'd have to write a Win32 console program that manipulates
the alternate data stream \005SummaryInformation through some COM interface.

[SecretServiceDude]

You'd have to write a Win32 console program that manipulates
the alternate data stream \005SummaryInformation through some COM interface.

You clever devil, using "%28" and "%29" to encode the parentheses in the URL so that the [url] tags work properly. I was going to ask how you did that, but hitting the quote button on your post revealed your wizardry.