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