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- DESC-NAR.COM -- Utility for Melding DESCRIPT.ION and NARATIVE.CF Files
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- DESC-NAR is provided as a freeware adjunct to the CMFiler shareware
- disk/file manager for 4DOS/NDOS users. Both CMFiler and 4DOS/NDOS have
- the capability to attach notes to files and directories, to help remind
- you of their contents. The 4DOS/NDOS notes are contained in files in
- each directory called DESCRIPT.ION, the CMFiler notes in files called
- NARATIVE.CF.
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- Unfortunately, I wrote CMFiler's notes facility before I had any
- knowledge of the convention and format already available in 4DOS/NDOS,
- and now the investment of time and risk of introducing logic errors into
- CMFiler's notes facility by attempting a rewrite it at this late date to
- shift to the 4DOS/NDOS DESCRIPT.ION convention is simply too great.
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- So I have done the next best thing -- a conversion utility that
- searches any disk you wish for all appearances of the 4DOS/NDOS-style
- DESCRIPT.ION files and CMFiler-style NARATIVE.CF files, renames them to
- *.BAK to preserve the original information, melds their combined
- information, casts out duplicates, and generates new files in both
- formats in each directory in which either style file had originally
- appeared.
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- Simply run DESC-NAR.COM at the DOS prompt by typing DESC-NAR. You
- will be asked to press the letter of the drive you want searched and
- DESCRIPT.ION and NARATIVE.CF files melded, and, when that drive is done,
- whether you want to do another. DESC-NAR requires 196k of free
- conventional memory.
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- DESC-NAR is provided by the author as a freeware utility to
- complement the CMFiler shareware disk/file manager. It is offered as-is,
- and is not warranted in any way. C. F. Martin is not responsible in any
- for any consequences arising from the use of DESC-NAR.
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- Charles F. Martin
- NoVaSoft
- 3239 Riverview Dr.
- Triangle, VA 22172-1421
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- Phone 703-221-1471
- CompuServe [72130,1400]
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