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What RenamePics does
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RenamePics extracts exposure info from a photo file generated by any Olympus digital camera. Using this extracted information it renames the file so that the file name reflects the date and time the picture was taken. RenamePics also updates the .LONGNAME extended attribute of this file so that the new file name is shown by the WPS either. Last not least, RenamePics copies the useful exposure data into the .COMMENT extended attribute of this file.

Once RenamePics has successfully finished its job, you may view a file's exposure info on page 3 of the "File" section of the "Settings" dialog window.

RenamePics expects one of the following file formats:
- An older, Olympus proprietary file format which is used, for example, by the Olympus DL-220.
- EXIF, which is an extension of TIFF. EXIF is at least used by the following, newer Olympus cameras: D-340R, C-2000Z.

Note that RenamePics does not copy all exposure data into .COMMENT. It only copies the useful information. For example, file offsets are discarded. If you want to see the complete data, you may run RenamePics with the "/d" option, see "renamepics /h" for help.

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Disclaimer
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RenamePics is freeware. You don't pay anything, and we, i.e. the authors of the program don't guarantee it to be useful for anything. Your using of any software in this distribution is completely at your own risk.

You may copy only the whole and unmodified package. If you think you need to modify the program, please add another read-me file (name it, say, readme.2) and put a complete list of your modifications in this additional read-me file.

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Files in the distribution
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readme.pgp     - Info about PGP
renamepics.asc - Rolf Lochbhler's PGP signature for renamepics.zip
renamepics.zip - A zipped package that contains the following files:

denise.c       - Source code
denise.h       - Source code
exif.c         - Source code
exif.h         - Source code
makefile       - Make file for renamepics.exe
readme         - This file
readme.1st     - Some general info about the read-me files
readme.old     - The old read-me file for the first RenamePics version
renamepics.c   - Source code
renamepics.exe - Executable
renamepics.h   - Source code

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Compiling RenamePics yourself
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Note that the makefile - which, by the way, has been written for nmake - is probably useless for you. It is only supposed to give you an idea how to compile the program yourself: Just make shure you have Eberhard Mattes' emx, including the GNU C compiler, installed and enter the makefile line that says "gcc renampics.c ...".

The whole emx package is available from either Hobbes <http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/> or Leo <http://www.leo.org/archiv/software/os2/>, and probably from other sites too.

You will probably see some error messages if you try to compile the program with IBM's icc.

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Future revisions
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Future revisions of RenamePics will be posted on Hobbes <http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/>.

Comments, and suggestions how to improve the program are very welcome. Send them to one of the addresses mentioned below.

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Authors
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Author of the original program was Denise Hallmark. Note that Denise is not involved in the development of RenamePics anymore.

Rolf Lochbuehler <rolf@together.net> and Brian Morrison <bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk> modified the program for EXIF.



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