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- FILETAG.DOC
-
- File tagging is the ability to associate a short text description
- with a file, which can be displayed on command, along with the file
- names.
-
- STadel will now support two different ways to display the
- contents of a directory room's directory. The first is the old way,
- and will remain the same -- .R(ead) D(irectory). The second method
- is used to display the file descriptions, and is .R(ead) <E(xtended
- directory).
-
- The format of a directory listing using .RE is like this:
-
- fn1 f1size | f1 description (date created)
- fn2 f2size | f2 description (date created)
- .
- .
- .
- fnx fxsize | fx description (date created)
-
-
- The fnX is filename x, and fXsize is the size of that file in
- xmodem sectors. The output is, of course, formatted to the users
- screen, so people with screens <= 40 are going find these listings a
- little hard to follow...
-
- So, how do we put these descriptions in, you ask? (I should let
- you folk guess!) For each directory room that you want to have
- descriptions for the files, there must be a file named '.DIR'.
- Within this file will be the descriptions, formatted in the
- following way:
-
- fn1<tab>f1 description
- fn2<tab>f2 description
- .
- .
- .
- fnX<tab>fX description
-
- Each fnX is the filename, in the left most column of the screen.
- "fX description" is the description for that file. It is limited to
- one* line for each file. However, that line may extend up to 7000
- characters, so if you have a text editor that will handle 7000
- characters on one line, and really want to do that to your users...
- Between each fnX and its description there must be at least* one tab.
-
- Each filename must be in uppercase, and the filenames must be in
- alphabetical order for .RE to work properly. STadel puts new file
- descriptions into the .DIR file in the proper order when somebody
- uploads a file to the system.
-