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On Monday, in article <830171454snz@wbriscoe.demon.co.uk>
     walter@wbriscoe.demon.co.uk "walter briscoe" wrote:

wb> In get, get the 1st 8 alphameric characters which precede the last
wb> period in the Unix name and the 1st 3 alphameric characters which follow
wb> that final period.  If that name is not already in use, use it and
wb> report what has been done. Otherwise, prompt for an alternative.
wb> 
wb> For mget, If repeated use of the name generation logic in get caused a
wb> problem, I would have a directory tree created to hold the files, report
wb> the activity and let the user sort the problem at his/her convenience.

I wouldn't mind this as an extra command (perhaps mmget?), but I
wouldn't like the normal operation of get/mget to be unavailable.
I like to control what's happening: the current situation lets me
do that.  These enhancements might be nice as an optional extra,
but not as a default.

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