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I want to take off the beginning 8 characters of 600 files, so do not want to do it manually.<br />
This used to be relatively easy in the pre-windows DOS days. <br />
If this is something I have to do from my 'command prompt,' the version I have under my Windows 2000 is 5.00.2195.<br />
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Thank you<br />

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I want to take off the beginning 8 characters of 600 files, so do not want to do it manually.
This used to be relatively easy in the pre-windows DOS days. 
If this is something I have to do from my 'command prompt,' the version I have under my Windows 2000 is 5.00.2195.

Thank you


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