XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Rich Ulrich presented the following explanation :   
      
   >   
   > I found the date-as-name extremely useful when I set about   
   > organizing the files I obtained when I had 10,000 slides scanned.   
   > They had been shot by my dad, featuring celebrations, vacations   
   > (people and viewss) and special events. This was about 30 years   
   > after he died, after my mom moved and was sorting things out,   
   > so discoloration was the problem that was more time-consuming   
   > than figuring the actual, original dates.   
   >   
   > I have also found useful a free program called Bulk Rename Utility,   
   > which gives great flexibility in re-defining names.   
   >   
      
   BRU is indeed nice.  XnView[MP] has some nice renaming features, but   
   BRU covers a whole lot more.   
      
   /dps   
      
   --   
   "That's a good sort of hectic, innit?"   
      
   " Very much so, and I'd recommend the haggis wontons."   
                   -njm   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)