How to change the extension of a file name ?

[av1998]

I've downloaded some songs from the web, and they're tagged with .ps extensions. How can I change them to .mp3 ? I've tried renaming, but it only changes the filename before the dot ... what can I do to change the extensions after the dot ?

Thank you for your help.

[Steve R Jones]

Renameing the file is not going change what TYPE of file it is. .PS is a post script file. Renaming chevy.327 to ford.350, you'll still have a chevy with a different name. Maybe some of the nice people here will know of a "conversion" utility.

[JROBERTS]

There is a program called ChangeXT that works very well. Here is a link to the homepage.
http://www.tweb.demon.co.uk/changext/
It seems to be down right now though. If you want it, email me and I will email it to you. It's only 134KB.
You'll also need the VB6 runtime files. Here is a link too them.
http://support.microsoft.com/download/support/mslfiles/Vbrun60.exe

[This message has been edited by JROBERTS (edited 12-06-1999).]

[deep_sky]

i have win98se and by right-clicking and hit rename and typing in the file extension I want, I can change the type of file i want a file to be. just a few days ago i had some .sql files from my database that I needed to turn to a professor and i wanted them to be .txt files. I did the above and the icon changed from the .sql icon from a database studio have to the notepad icon.....

[Freezar01]

just go to MSDOS Prompt

type c:\rename location:file.ext newfile.ext
that's all very easy huh no need to download any thing.