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- DESC_NAR.COM -- Utility for Melding DESCRIPT.ION and NARATIVE.CF Files
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- Version 1.3 -- November 15, 1994
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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. To make matters more complicated, the PC Magazine utility
- DIRNOTES makes notes in files it calls DIRN-xyz.DAT, where xyz is the
- first three characters of the directory name.
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- I wrote CMFiler's notes facility before I had any knowledge of the
- convention and format already in use in 4DOS/NDOS, and I have consciously
- decided to continue using a separate NARATIVE.CF file for the CMFiler
- notes facility instead of converting everything to the DESCRIPT.ION
- convention. However, I have built a feature into CMFiler that melds or
- "synchronizes" the DESCRIPT.ION and NARATIVE.CF files in a directory
- whenever the CMFiler notes facility is called. This feature preserves
- all existing entries in either file type, and adds to either any unique
- entries from the other that did not already appear. It then redates both
- files identically as evidence of the update.
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- DESC_NAR accomplishes the same "synchronization" on all directories
- of a hard drive at once, to establish a baseline normalization. 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. You will then be asked if you want unique file
- notes from DIRN-xyz.DAT files added to the NARATIVE.CF and DESCRIPT.ION
- files.
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- Once you have answered both questions, DESC_NAR proceeds to search
- all directories for any of the above files, and add to or create new as
- appropriate the NARATIVE.CF and DESCRIPT.ION files. You may press Esc at
- any time to terminate the program. When all file conversion on that
- drive is done, DESC_NAR asks whether you want to do another.
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- DESC_NAR requires 196k of free conventional memory. Versions 1.1
- and later accomodate entries in the DESCRIPT.ION file greater than 39
- characters. The previous version truncated any entries greater than 39
- characters.
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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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