yes, thats what i had to do for windows...couldn't find a way around. 

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Stump, Robert (Contractor) (DRMS) wrote:

> I would like to create a filelist for a windowsNT users server 
> to break up a 200GB directory into 3 smaller streams
> I want to use:
>  
> NEW_STREAM
> /D/Users/[a-j]*
> NEW_STREAM
> /D/Users/[k-r]*
> NEW_STREAM
> /D/Users/[s-z]*
>  
> However it seems that windows doesn't extrapolate the pattern inside the [ ]
> So I am forced to use????
>  
> NEW_STREAM
> /D/Users/a*
> /D/Users/b*
> /D/Users/c*
> /D/Users/d*
> /D/Users/e*
> /D/Users/f*
> /D/Users/g*
> /D/Users/h*
> /D/Users/i*
> /D/Users/j*
> NEW_STREAM
> /D/Users/k*
> /D/Users/l*
> and so on to next stream
> NEW_STREAM
> /D/Users/s*
> /D/Users/t*
> well you get the picture. 
> and adding uppercase makes it even more tedious.
>  
> Any thoughts...or should I just bull my way through it?
>