On Oct 16, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Russell McMahon wrote:

> The 8.3 name is of course invaluable when using a keyboard to
> manage files with lonnnnnnnnnnnnng file names.
>
Bah.  Become enlightened, and get a unix BASH-like shell instead
(part of cygwin, but perhaps obtainable otherwise.)  Filename
completion and real regular expressions as well as unix-style
filename wildcarding.  Similarly on Macs, there are things that
work much better from a unix shell than from one of the GUI utils...

BillW

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