Re: zip dired rename

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com
> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:55:24 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> 
> I'm using gnu 19.34 on MSDOS and 21.3.1 on Unix Bash
> 
> I have some zip files with contents like 
>    "glop02/a true banana file june 23.eml"
> and I want to rename the (100-300) files to 8.3 old msdos style
>      like "glbjun23.eml"
> before I unzip them.
> It would be easier to do this on 19.34 since I downloaded them already.
> 
> I thought i knew (and prolly forgot) the commands in dired (M and R)..

19.34 is very old; does it have the "% M" command in Dired?  If it
does, that's the command you probably want.