>Please...
>
>I have taken the liberty of cc'ing the fb list since the xfb list is 
>in restructure... please forgive me ;-)
>
>I have written an AppleScript to run under OS X that will delete 
>from the front of file names any digit, space or ".". The problem is 
>that AS under X does not recognize the leading "." as part of the 
>file's name; my best guess is that it considers the "." to be an 
>extension separation character. How would one successfully select a 
>leading "." in a file's name in OS X?
>
>Charlie Dickman
>3tothe4th@...


I dunno, Charlie. But I would be cautious about deleting leading 
spaces and digits. These are used with some regularity.
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