adding file suffix

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From: David Gursky
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 03:53

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  HF> I just transfered about 200 Mac tiff files from a Mac HD to my NeXT
  HF> HD. Of course they show up just like text files which I just add the
  HF> .tiff suffix and everthing is fine. But I don't want to change them
  HF> all by hand so the QUESTION is;  is there a neat UNIX thing that will
  HF> allow me to batch them all with the .tiff suffix ??

How about moving them all into a single sub-directory, opening a terminal shell,
moving to the aforementioned directory, and using a command to the effect of "mv
* *.tiff"

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From: David.Gursky@p394.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (David Gursky)
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Subject: adding file suffix
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Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 22:53:26 -0500
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