worley@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Dale Worley) (01/08/90)
One way to make this work is based on the fact that the characters appended to file names by "-F" are entirely redundant. Thus, by examining the modes, the appended character can be predicted and thus removed off the file name before it is used, without damaging file names that genuinely contain * or whatever. Since all of the dired functions use dired-get-filename to extract the file name on a line of the dired buffer, this change shouldn't be too hard to make. Dale Worley Compass, Inc. worley@compass.com -- Don't use humor in postings -- There is nothing you can say that is so absurd that someone won't take it seriously, and then *complain about it*.