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I have a couple of questions about dired.

Recently someone suggested a method for changing the name of backedup
files.  If you change the way files are backedup, is there a way to
get dired to mark all backedup files the way it does now with ~?

Also, if you set the dired-listing-switches to "-alF" then you get a *
after executables, etc (yes, I know this is redundant since the
information is already in there with a "-al" but it's alot easier to
read a "*" than to read "wrx-rx-rx").  However, when you try to view
or edit a file with a * you get a new file because it will try to load
the file "file*" rather than "file".  Is there an easy way to strip of
the trailing characters from a -F listing?

Thanks for your help,
Martin Farach


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* Martin Farach				|                                     *
* University of Maryland		|                                     *
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* mpf@brillig.umd.edu			|                                     *
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