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On Sunday 12 February 2006 23:03, Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> I remember a little MSDOG shell utility called 4dos. It alllowed me |
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> to store comments that would appear alongside the filename. Can |
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> anyone point to a way to do this transparently and easily with bash? |
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> I don't want to run any extra programs if I can avoid it. I do like |
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> dired for emacs, though. |
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4dos (and 4NT, still use it daily on win2000) had to deal with 8.3 filenames.. |
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So it used an index file named descript.ion. Under linux that's not nessecary |
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as you can just use long filenames including spaces.. |
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