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on 15 Oct 2002, "Bingham, Jay" <Jay.Bingham@hp.com> spake thusly:

> If you want to have multiple shells each with a unique name generated
> without the asterisks you can do this: 
> (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook
> (lambda () (rename-buffer (generate-new-buffer-name "shell")))) 

Perfect, this is exactly what I needed despite my initial query being a bit 
vague. Thanks...