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- DIREDIT allows MS-DOS directories to be rearranged for
- increased convenience and/or efficiency. Individual files
- may be moved around and/or the entire directory can be
- reordered.
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- DIREDIT allows you to "edit" MS-DOS directories. There are a
- number of programs, some in the public domain, others
- available as components of commercial utility packages (e.g.
- the Norton Utilities (TM)), which allow directories to be
- sorted in various ways (by filename, by file type
- ("extension"), by modification date, by size), but DIREDIT
- also allows the user to specify an arbitrary order and/or to
- move individual directory entries around at will. DIREDIT
- also displays the directory in a very compact manner, with
- up to 80 file-names visible on the screen at once, but
- allows you to see the full file description for any entry
- simply by moving a cursor to the name. The order in which
- subdirectories and files are listed in the directory is the
- order in which DOS searches through them (when asked to find
- a data file or executable program). It follows from this
- that programs and data files will be accessed fastest if
- they appear at the top of the directory listing of the
- subdirectory in which they are found, and also that
- subdirectories (especially those which are specified in your
- PATH command) should, for fast access, be at the top of the
- directory listing. On the other hand, many people find it
- easier to find a file that they are searching for if the
- directory is sorted in some other way. DIREDIT can be used
- for both purposes - arranging directories on disk for
- efficient access and then resorting them temporarily
- on the screen when searching for a file without
- (necessarily) saving the resorted directory to disk. The
- DIREDIT package includes full on-disk documentation and on-
- line help.
-