Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:58:17 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Klaus Reinhardt <K DOT Rdt AT TU-Berlin DOT DE>
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Subject: Re: Where change file name expansion?
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On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Klaus Reinhardt wrote:

> I would like to change the ls-behaviour as follows:
> 
> 1.)	NOW:
> 	ls -l kopiev~1.exe
> 	-rwxr-xr-x   1 dosuser  root         6064 Aug 12 12:07 kopiev~1.exe
> 2.)	I WISH:
> 	-rwxr-xr-x   1 dosuser  root         6064 Aug 12 12:07 Kopie von ...
> 	(like: 	dir   kopiev~1.* 
> 		...
> 		kopiev~1 exe         6.064  12.08.99  12:07 Kopie von RDT_MIDI.EXE
>         	... 

There's no such option in LS right now.

To get the long name of a file given its short 8+3 alias, use the library 
function `_truename'.